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, .NED liL 

7HOMAS V. PATERSON, 

I ; ■ JD LIBEL CONTAINED IN A PAMPHLET ENTITLED 

46THE 

PRIVA LIFE, PUBLIC CAREER, 



KEAL CHARACTER 



OF THAT 



: ') V S RASCAL 



i M.XI M 



iWfyiiii 



lEVELOPED BY HIS CONDUCT TO HIS 



PAST ^^ IFE, PRESENT WIFE, 



AND HIS VARIOUS 



P VRAMOURS ! 



I! I tlie Veil, and Uiimaskiiig to a Horror-stricken 
1 lis Debaiiciieries Seductious, Adulteries, 
■I i Cruelties, Tlireats and Murders 1 !*' 



NEW-YORK:' 
0M.\ ATERSON, PRINTER AND PUBLISHER, 

216 FLLTON^TiiEET. 
1849. 



Entered according to Act of Congress, in the 1819, by THOMAS V. PATERSON tt 
thfcie'vs Office ol' the District c/urt fir the United States, for the Southern District f 
New York. 



PROCEEDINGS. 

LOWER POLICE COURT, HALLS OF JUSTICE. 

CrrV AND COUNTY ) 
OF Ntw YuuK. <"■ 



Libel. 



The People, &c., o.\ Complaint of 
e. z. c. judsom, 
Jlgainst 
Thomas V. Pateeso.n-. ' J 

City and County of JVeiv York. — Edward Z. C, Judson, of Bull's Fenv, 
in the State of New Jersey, transacting business at 309i Broadway, in the 
City of New York, being duly sworn, doth depose, and say, that he is com- 
monly known as iVed Biintline, and is the Editor and Proprietor of a paper 
published in the cit}', called JVed Buntlincs Oion. That the annexed pam- 
phlet is of and concerning deponent, there being, to deponent's knowledge, 
no other person of the sjme name. That the contents thereof are a gross, 
foul, and malicious libel ; for that it charges deponent with having commit- 
ted various murders, in which, as well as many other respects, it is utterly 
and entirely untrue ; and that wheresoever in the contents of said pamphlet 
there is like a resemblance of truth, the real facts are so distorted, exagger- 
ated, and misrepresented, as to become, by means thereof, untrue, and a 
malicious libel on deponent. That the same is printed, published, and sold 
by one Thomas V. Paterson, of 216 Fulton Street, in said City, who 
was formerly employed by deponent, but was afterwards dismissed by 
deponent from his employment ; that the same is malicious, and is done by 
said Paterson to injure deponent and his said newspaper. 

EDWARD Z. C. JUDSON. 
Sworn this 27th day of August, > jAiiTr^o »t /^DA-ntr -r, i- t 

1849, before me, \ ^^^^^^ McGRA TH, Police Justice. 

LOWER POLICE COURT, HALLS OF JUSTICE. 

CITY .^ND COUNTY J^ 
or New York. J ' 

The People, on the Complaint of -s 

E. Z. C. Judson, I r ■, , 

Against } ^»^«^- 

Thomas V. Paterson. J 

City and County of ..Vew Y67-A;.~Theodore F. Strong, of 171J South 
Fourth Street, Williamsburgh, in the County of Kings, Manufacturer and 
Machinist, being duly sworn, doth depose and say, he did on Saturday the 
25th day of August instant, purchase of Thomas V. Paterson, at his office in 
Fulton Street, in the city of New York, two copies of a pamphlet called and 
entitled, " The Private Life, Public Career, and Real Character of that Odious 
Rascal, Ned Buntline," &c. &.c , and that th^^ 'nexed pamphlet is one 
of those which deponent purchased as aforesaid. 

Sworn this 27th day of August, > ,.>-p„ ,,^,,r> A rpu n ; -, r <• 

lO/in I, r ' S JAMES McGKAlH, Polid Justice. 

lSi9, before me, ) ' 

The following is the alleged libel complained of, and placed before the 
Court : — 



PRIVATE LIFE, PUBLIC CAP.EER, AND HEAL CHARACTER 

OF TEIAT ODIOUS RASCAL 

NED B U N T L I N E ! ! 

AJ DEVELOPED BY HIS CONDUCT TO H.'S 

PAST WIFE, PRESENT WIFE, AND HIS VARIOUS PARAMOURS! 

Completely lifting up the Veil, and unmasking to a horror-siricken Community, liis 

Debauciciic:-, Seductions, Adulteries, Reveliugs, Cruellies, 

Threats, and iVlurders ! I ! 



NKVV VOKK : 

Thomas V. Paterson, Printer and Publisher, 
OIG Fulton Street, 1849. 



INTRODUCTION. 

'• Be sure your sins will Jind.you out." 



The object of this brief sketch of the career and character of the Great Moral Retorm- 
EK I is not so much to gratify Ned's imperturbable vanity, by giving him a Tijc/ie in the 
"Temple of Roguery," as to let the world know him as he really is, and not as he would 
seem. Those familiar with the chronicles of the rascal tribe, will find in the revelation*: 
heiein given, that, however low they may have hitherto dived in criminal research, "there 
is still a lower deep." Those who have been blackguarded by him— those honest tradesmen 
■who have been branded by him — those females whom he has abused — everybody whom he 
has injured, can here read the actions of that demon, who has assumed the airs of a teacher 
of morals, lo more plausingly indulge in hell born malignity. This sketch will equally 
portray his affectation of virlues,'and \i\ii prrpelralion of vices. True, "the end is not yet." 
While we write, new developments crowd upon us — new phases of his cruelty and heart- 
lessnes to his wife and family, are being revealed — new falsehoods being foisted on the cre- 
dulity of an already humbugged public, whom, (so he says,) he continues still lo fleece and 
delude, which only convince me of the necessity of a hasty exposure. No apology, there- 
fore, is necessary for this pamphlet. Every well wisher to his species ; every lover of vir- 
tue ; every one anxious that the right should prevail, knows it to be his duty lo unmask a 
hypocrite, who, attaching himseU to the press, perverts, what otherwise is the noblest bul- 
wark of morality and liberty, into an engine of knavery and roguery. Nci, with small 
talents, little learning and no principle, has usurped the privileges of the press for the 
most base, sneaking, and cowardly means of extorting money, damning character, and 
gratifying the most incredible heartlessness. These objects, aid his atrocious attacks upon 
many private families; and, still more lately, his demonaic d ef aviation oi h'\% oyrti wife and 
family, together with his threatening letters to them, makes it of some importance th;.t the 
community should knoio his own rep.l character. Able pens have already touched on dif- 
ferent points of his career. My task will be the collection of those sweets into one charm- 
ing nosegay. Much of his conduct for the last eijhleen months, is of that disgusting 
character that no printer could be got to set it up, and no one could read. Still much of it 
is here, and enough to morally demonstrate that no character in this or any other country, 
■was ever based on such a concentration of villainy, hypocrisy, or deceit ; yet kvebi word 
IS BEiiEVED TO BE STRICTLY TRUE ! yea, much is extenuated ! 



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EARLY LIFE. 

" Defonned, unfiuisheJ, sent before his time, 

Into this breathing world, scarcely half made np. 

And that so lamely and uufas-hionably, 

That the very dogs bork at him, as he halts by them." 

■ E. Z. C. JuDSON was born about the year 1813, in Dutchess County, New 

■ Y'ork, consequently he is about thirty-six years of age, and looks bad at 

■ that. His parents were only remarkable from having a son over whom they 
^ had no control. Like the Bedoun Arabs, he was characterized, from earliest 
P life, as a wanderer and a vagabond. It became a saying in his village, 
^ among parents, that wherever he was, there was rascality at work also. 
P Ned could at a very early period mimic any kind of passion he found most 
III conducive to his interest. So well, too, that many could not detect the 
ft cunning counterfeit. But tchen detection followed, he never felt shame. 

(He (ells us that his most prominent passion was "revenge." Cunning and 
revenge remain his characteristics to this hour, both more fearful from his 
long practice and impunity. A contemporary remarks of his education 
thus : — " It is certain that Ned can read, and even write after a fashion, but 
1 owing either to the fault of his teachers, or his own independent spirit, he 
a has set the rules of Lindley Murray at total defiance, and habitually demo- 
lishes the English language with a courage and indefatigability worthy of a 
better cause." 

One thing is pretty certain, that his early years gave promising indica- 
.jM tions of his present career. After twelve years endeavor on the part of his 

■ parents to curb his lawlessness, in vain, at thirteen j'ears of age he ran 
away, but not until he had cursed his father to his face. Ned, speaking of 

■ this event of his life, admits his taste for low company, his disobedience, and 
F' consequent punishment — admits that his father, mother, and sister, hated 

him, and pleads this fact as an apology for his abuse of them. He tells us 
'I that when leaving home at thirteen : " He sent a look, and said a word, 
which, like an arrow, went to my father's heart, which rankled then, 
rankles now, and will rankle /ortrer." Is it not disgustingly horrible to find 
a youth venting imprecations upon the parents who gave him birth \ Reader, 
what could be the nature and character of that being whose father, mother, 
and sister, could not bear him — when the mother's love for her child became 
extinguished in unquenchable hate! when a sister's gentleness became 
shrouded in aversion ! and a father told him never to darken his door ^ The 
key is found in the abuse of his present wife — in the libels of his present 
sister-in-law — in his threatening to murder his present father-in-law .' Such 
a wretch forfeits every privilege of humanity, and finds no language of suf- 
ficient execration to brand with ignominy. 

At thirteen we find him cabin-boy in a small schooner, depending for his 
success upon his cunning, now rapidly developing, when away from all 
parental control. His vanity seems, at this early period, to have been 
in full bloom, and his boastings of that day bear a fair proportion to those of 
the present — means and opportunities considered. Hear him. " Before I 
was fourteen years of age, I had made love to four beautiful girls, every one 
of whom was dying for me, as I was for them. First, there was Caroline B., 
whom, after swearing eternal friendship to, I soon forgot ; then came Jtariam, 
the splendid Jewess, who on her bended knees implored me to be hers forever j 



TTe exchanged vows and parted, she to Texas to wait for me, and I to — laugh 
at her. Next was a sweet angelic creature of New York, called JWaggie, 
■who fell, fascinated by my ch^-ming appearance. She, with her mother, 
lived about Fulton Street. I si^re to make her my wife, when I became a 
man ! My next flame was Arabella Martin, of Key West. I was obliged 
to promise marriage in this case as the others, but had no intention of ful- 
filment. One evening, when we were on board her father's vessel, and all 
hands rather top-heavy with liquor, Arabella retired to her state room, and 
1 — will close this chapter, reader." Such is nearly a literal version of his 
own story ; such is a picture of this " lady killer" and prodigious Moral 
Reformer before fourteen years of age, while only a boy on board a schoon- 
er. Who can be astonished at the parental prediction, that the " boy would 
be father to the manl" Who can be astonished at the impertinent egotism 
of the present braggart, on reading the pretensions of the infantile cock- 
atrice 1 Who can be astonished at his worship of the diabolical trinity of 
his senilty — namely, " Courtezans, Liquor, and Revenge," when we find 
such brutal heartlessness and precocious villany at fourteen 1 

About this period his father made a "hit." He collected a number of 
" stale aphorisms," from English works, copyrighted them as his own, and 
hawked the book about the country ; and by the borrowed reputation of an 
author, as well as some intriguing and unscrupulousness among the Demo- 
cratic ranks in and around Philadelphia, contrived, although he hated Ned, 
and Ned hated him and the whole family, to obtain for him a Midshipman's 
berth! 

Most readers aie aware, that the cadets of the American naval service are 
generally young men of elegant minds and gentlemanly conduct. It is not 
to be supposed for a moment, they could wish for, or tolerate in their 
society, such a ciiamelion upstart as Ned was known to be, and, therefore, 
they spurned association with him. But let Ned tell this part of his own 
story. " It is needless for the writer to keep the run of Ned for a week or 
so in the city, during which time he was employed in getting- his uniform, 
&c., &c,, and also in making o^^cr preparations ; for, from various very at- 
tentive friends, he learned that the midshipmen of the frigate had met in so- 
lemn conclave, and resolved," that this contemptible Janus-faced youth, 
equally noted for his ignorance, pride, quarrelsomeness, and hypocrisy, 
should not disgrace them and the service by their connivance." 

The consequence was, that when '■ Ned," swelling in the pride of egotism 
and his ill-deserved promotion as a "Middy," sent down a note to the mana- 
ger of the " Mess," the following tart reply was promptly returned by that 
gentleman : " I am directed by the mess to decline the honor .'' Such was 
the substantial sentiment of his companions as to his character. Although 
his association was confined tb the sailors generally, yet his incorriq;ible and 
predestined character was memorialized on board of the vessel. He circu- 
lated lies and inuendos amongst the various members of the ship, with a se- 
cresy such as hatred only could mature ; and fostered quarrels amongst the 
crew, with a success that must have gratified his demon heart. At length, 
on the coast of Florida, while the officers were on shore, and the sailors ex- 
cited with liquor, a quarrel ensued between an Englishman and Ned — both 
being in a grog-shop and tipsy, at the time — which resulted in Ned, with his 
coward heart, watching an opportunity, and striking the unfortunate man on 
the back part of the head with a cutlas?, killing him on the spot ! ! Ned 
was taken and tried for the .-viurder, but the wretch capable of the crime, 
was equally capable of lying through thick and thin, or of buying himself 
off. This was the first murder on record by this black-hearted toad, but 



alas, it was but the Jirst step in his career of blood ! 

His future conduct while in the service, is so enormous in itself, and ap- 
parently so incredible, as to stagger belief; suffice it, that he found it neces- 
sary to witlidraw from that profession, which, were many like iiimself to 
grace, would degenerate into a bye-word worse than tiiat of felony or 
piracy. Had he remained but a short period longer, his 6'c//"-dubbed bravery 
would have been more severely tested than when Mr. McGowan pulled his 
nose for him recently in Philadelphia. Sic gloria tnvisit of " Ned Bunt- 
line" from the Navy, as was well remarked by a gallant oflicar in the service. 
" He nevek did it a greater stiaicE than isv leaving it before he was 
KICKED OUT," as all had become disgusted with his sensuality, his mendacity, 
and his brutality. 



THE WAY NED CAUGHT A WIFE. 

Excess of Pride'Jias addled his poor brain. 

" His own account is, that being in Havana, he made the acquaintance of 
Don Manuel de Candelario, who had a daughter called Dona Seberina, living 
in the palace of her aunt, the Countess Escudero, and that he no sooner ap- 
peared in his sailor's toggery, and combed red-rusty hair, than Duchess and 
Countess prostrated themselves before him. The above tale is one unmiti- 
gated falsehood, the fruit of his unconquerable vanity, as all can endorse 
who know him as I do. Besides, I appeal to every one who has ever seen 
him, whether such a creature, with a face like a bladder of lard, almost goggled- 
eyed, humpbacked, and red-headed, is likely to be such a Princess killer 1 
Why, its really enough to set all Christendom laughing at the ludicrous con- 
ceit of the little hunchback! 

His marriage with" Seberina," who certainly was an amiable and handsome 
girl, was the result of his desperate fortunes, and his unscrupulous method 
of endeavoring to recruit them. Soured by general spite, ruined of all hope 
of remaining in the Navy, friendless save in the sympathies of a few row- 
dies, a perfect tornado of bad passions raging in his bosom, and in hopes of 
gratifying by the , reputed wealth of this young girl, he made vows to her 
with all the energy of destitution, and with all the amorousness of sensuali- 
ty, which she, innocent and artless, mistook for genuine passion and fell into 
the snare. Poor girl, little able was she to fathom that such a mercenary, 
deceitful, and disgusting lasciviousness, was the real cause of her bestowing 
her hand upon this putred monster — this legal ^prostitutor ! — who, to gain 
his ends, professed to become a Catholic ; yea, he clothed himself in the vile 
robes of hypocrisy so well, that he passed among the Catholics themselves 
as a saint of the first water! Such was his indecent anxiety and haste to 
batten on the poor girl's money, that he went and took the Sacrament'. 

'' Wliat a veform'd of grace 
Appears this moDarch of the canting race. 
*Ti8 said the virtues of this second Paul 
Brothers the pericraniums of us all." 



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FIDELITY TO HIS FIRST WIFE. 

" What boots it that I'm rich, Fm still a villain." 

What crowing and triumphing — what carousing and bragging with degra- 
ded companions over the victory by marriage, of his wife's little property 
— with what contempt he contemplated the poor girl he had tricked and 
cheated by the supremacy of his hypocrisy, and by the unfathomabilily of 
his mendacity we cannot now narrate, but will take his own version only, of 
his conduct after marriage : 

" Dulce will you go to the masquerade-ball to-night 1 " said I to my lesser- 
half, on a bright evening during the gayest part of the " carnival season." 

", No, ray amor" answered she ; "1 aji ill this evening; don't go out to- 
night, but stay by my side, and let your cheering presence save a doctor's 
fee." 

" Madam, you know that 1 had made up my mind to go out in my new 
caballero's dress ; you are not very ill ; and I shall be dull company for you, 
if disappointment holds a berth in my mind. You had better consent to 
my going ; I will return early." 

" Do as you please. Sir," she responded poutingly ; "but if you neglect 
me thus in the first year of our mairiage, how shall 1 be treated when Time's 
shadow shall darken my brow and dim the light of my eyes ; when my spir- 
its shall droop, and my beauty fade before the wintry frosts of age V 

To shorten my yarn, reader, I rigged myself and went to the ball, rny 
heart beating a "conscience-tattoo" against its casing all the way ; for 
well I marked the' soft reproach which my wife's full dark eye spoke when 
I left her side. 

Having arrived at the ball' room, I mingled with the gay maskers, listened 
to the music, and in the sparkling wine-glass sought for excitement ; yet 
that perpetual drum-stick of conscience kept thumping against the parch- 
ment head of reflection and I could not feel happy. Dressed as attractively 
as possible, I sought and danced with the fairest maidens in the throng ; yet 
still, Thought, that nettle in life's garden, kept J03' in a distant offing, and 
Pleasure far in my wake. 

After a time a lady is selected from amid the throng and thus, the lecherous 
fox, grown already vulpone in countenance with the success of stolen am- 
ours, speaks of his new charmer : 

" My wife had beautifully soft, glossy curls of jet, but ihey could never 
compare with the black tresses of twining silk, which hung nearly to the 
feet of my strange chanmr. J When we had got clear of the throng, she 
again spoke : 

" ' Are you a gentleman ? — one on whom a lady may in all honor de- 
pend !' 

" I answered, that to the best of my knowledge and belief I was, and 
thought I might be depended upon. 

" ' Would you,risk your own life, or destroy that of another, for a lady, if 
her honor required, and her love would reward the act V 

" ' For one so /air, so angelic as j'ourself, 1 would risk more than life !' 

" A shudder seemed to pass through her form ; her little feet stamped 
the tesselated floor impatiently ; her fingers were clasped together until 
they were bloodless, as she continued : 

" ' Have you ever loved V 

^' 1 may have felt a school boy^s passion,' I replied with assumed indifTer- 
ance. 



" ' Then you are not married V 

" ' I have been,' was my reply. 

" A^ain she showed marks of impatience and excitement, as if some great 
trouble rested on her mind. This 1 pressed her to reveal to me, offering 
every aid in my power to defend her, or even to avenge past wrong. I 
besought her to have confidence in my atfection, new-fledged though it was, 
and to test its strength, even as ' she might direct. She faltered, hesitated 
for a moment, and then, requesting me to await her return, hastily left the 
ball-room. * • « * » * * 

The lady afterwards asks him would he assist her in ridding the earth 
of a person she hated, and this is Ned's replj' : 

" I would slay him ! by the Hand which made me ! I would slay him 
as a dog that had bitten or a serpent which had stung me !" 

Such is a specimen of the revolting homage which this mercenary, traf- 
ficker in blood Land human affections, offered to a strangerj such was his 
conduct to the wife, that but few short weeks previously he had sworn to be 
faithful to; but whom lie left at home to weep and pine, while he coquetted 
with other women, and strutted about in the gaudy garb her marrage portion 
purchased ! And yet, Reading Public ! this poor souled wretch — this veno- 
mous reptile is ike insect that for two years past has made his dirty meals of 
public and private slander! We really wonder that such a 

Rascal from the press has not been hurled. 
Scorned by the good rfnd carted round the world. 



ILL USAGE AND DEATH OF HIS WIFE. 

Where'er he moves ajjliclion mourns his amity. 

Poor girl — poor lorsaken, desolate, heart-broken, Seberina ! Ned's infi- 
delities — his reproaches, his 'extravagancies, which all had for their object 
his own self-gratification and self-aggrandisements, became at last so offen- 
sively mean, and so mercilessly cruel, that her Spanish blood was roused, 
and she actually threatened his murder and her own assassination ! But 
Ned knew how to cure the blighted creature. His hideous self-love and 
unbridled sensualism, soon scattered to the winds her little all, and he left 
her alone with the gnawing, snapping fox of poverty, and an aching heart to 
eat into her very bowels, and shortly the damning evidences were visible. 
Dragged far, far away from home and kindred, a stranger to our very lan- 
guage, she became a denizen of a miserable, fcetid apartment, and that face, 
which a short time ago beamed with beauty, kindness, gentleness and love, 
became care-lined, hag;:ard and dejected by habitual want and habitual 
brutality! But that bouncing braggart — that connubial apostate— that 
blaspheming thing of outward observances — that hideous moral mountebank, 
foul and leprous within, actually sported with joy at the miserable writhings 
and struggling? of his now hopeless, victim! B cause, by her death he 
should be relieved of a burden and at liberty to look for new game — for 
new geese, and new feathers to pluck. Such unparalleled depravity, thank 
heaven, is very seldom seen among ought bearing the human form, else we 
ipight truly blush for our race, and consider redemption as impossible. 

Poor Seberina ! deserted and spurned, she sat in her almost empty apart- 
ment, a being sacred in her very misery, glorified in her very desolation — 
divine, by the very meekness evinced by the betrayal of woman's most 



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sacred affections. Yes, although daily want and misery had anticipated her 
age, she seemed to her poor neighbors a divinity in her martyrdom, and ex- 
cited so much sympathy for her condition that a subscription was set on foot 
in Nashville, to send her home to Florida ! 

To make the story short, she died ere assistance could be collected to 
send her back to that home of her youth. She never again saw that father 
of her heart — that mother of her love — more horrible than all, she died giv- 
ing birth to another being, which luckily never opened its eyes after the 
mother's were closed in death. She died alone ! among strangers ! her 
husband revelling amongst the pariahs of the city — aye, while the ulcer of 
death was eating his poor wife's heart, was he a pattern of all that is loath- 
some in name, and indescribable in print, but which will be referred to in 
another chapter. His victim is no more ! She had often declared, the 
church-porch had been the entrance to her tomb — the bridal ring had wed- 
ded her to the worms. 

" Some women die so slowly, that none dare call it murder," therefore^l 
shall not call the above tit-bit of tyranny, brutal spite and callous heart- 
lessness. Murder, but the climax remains to be told. Nero fiddling while 
Rome was burning, is nothing to it. Ned heard a subscription was on foot 
to send his wife home, he watched from a distance its fulfillment, and hear- 
ing of her death, and imagining her in possession of the collection money, he 
hastened to the house of his dead wife and child, literally plundered the 
corpses and decamped ! ! ! 

I will not dwell upon this most unheard-of and most melancholy exhibi- 
tion of brutality. The funereal scene of woe, in its best form, is dreadful 
enough to the general reader, but a wife and child sacrificed to the demon 
of brutality and heartlessness, is an awful spectacle — fit only for the hellish 
imagination that conceived, and the fiend who executed it. 



NASHVILLE TRAGEDY. 

The marble-hearted fiend. 

The foregoing chapter may contain statements about our Moral Refor- 
mer, which v/ill stagger credibility, but, alas! all is cabable of ample proof. 
Ned's career, hitherto, is one of disobedience, lying, murder, desertion, and 
death. Flis annals, a memorial of deceit, self-gratification, and self-aggran- 
disement — that, to obtain these, he sticks at no meanness, no fraud, no as- 
sumption, no arrogance, and no cruelty. While proclaiming virtue as his 
peculiar attribute, none so licentious; assuming the mien of candor, none so 
hypocritical ; pretending an utter carelessness of wordly riches, I will shortly 
show that, under the rose, he is the very demon of cupidity, and that his pre- 
tended generosity is a Selusion and a snare. 

The hideous portrait of Hhe freature hitherto described, is but an incom- 
plete skeleton sketch of his varied and unparalleled career. It is as a Pub- 
lic Teacher of Morals, that fairly puts a climax upon all comparison, and 
displays this miscreant in bold bas-relief. These initiatory chapters simply 
show that Ned's nature is essentially bad, and the fruits are consistent with 
the tree that bears them. Void of all principle, destitute of every virtuous 
feeling, he suffers no restraint but that of policy, in the audacious pursuit 
of self-indulgence. 

It scarcely seems possible that the man who caused the horrid scene in the 
last chapter could again look in the face of heaven — in the face of his fellow 



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■man ! [t seems fictional tliat this reptile in sovil did not, after the murder 
of an angel wife and child, crawl like a snake to the grave on the dust. — 
Not he ! While hi? wife was perishins:, he, as a '■ Reformer," was actually 
publisiiing a paper, trathcking upon black mail, and enjoying the piquancy 
of a new seduction. His shamelessness ir this case, like all others of this 
blood-stained wolf, must be ended in blood ! After" boasting the seduction 
of Mr. Porterfield's wife he finished the tragedy by murdering the husband! 
But let us quote from the papers on the subject. 

NED BUNTLINE'S MORALITY!! 

Particulars of the Porterjield Traqedij at Js'ashviile ! — Si/pposed Criminal- 
ity with .Vrs Porterjield — Killing of her husband by Buntline — Buntline\s 
narrow escape from the excited populace — Fearful leap from the third 
story of the hotel — His seizure by the mob — Forcitly taken from the prison, 
and hanged in the public square — ^Miraculous escape, SfC, &c. 

We took occasion, last week, to allude to the Nashville tragedy, in which 
Ned Buntline bore so conspicuous a part — we now furnish our readers with 
the particulars of that affair, and they will, after reading it be better enabled 
to judge of this person's qualifications to improve the morals of the commu- 
nity of New York. The following account was published in the newspa- 
pers at the time of the occurrence : — 

" In our paperTof Tuesday, we copied an extract from the Nashville Ga- 
zette, of an afl'ray which occurred there on Saturday last, between Mr. 
Robert Porterfield, a worthy citizen of that place, and one E. Z. C. Judson, 
(Ned Buntline,) in which the former was killed. The last Nashville 
Whig gives a detailed account of the whole affair. We make a few extracts 
from it : — 

" Robert Porterfield, whose untimely death a whole community is now 
deploring, having learned that Judson had stated that he had criminal inter- 
course with his, Porterfield's wife, sought an interview with the latter on 
Wednesday last in presence of several individuals, to one of whom it was 
said, J. had made the statement. That individual, when asked in J.'s pre- 
sence, if such a statement had been mide to him by J., promptly answered 
in the affirmative. J. strenuously denied it, but Porterfield, placing no con- 
fidence i?i his denial, drew a pistol, and would have shot him on the spot had 
he not been prevented from doing so by those who were present. On the 
eveninj' of the day on which this interview took place, the individual at 
whose office it was held, made known to Mr. John Porterfield, brother of the 
deceased, that prior to the interview, J. had called upon him and co7ifcssed 
that he had made the statement in question to the individual about to be brought 
forward as a witness, but that for the purpose of saving his life, which he 
knew would be taken by the Porterfield's, if the fact were proven upon him, 
he intended to deny ever havimx said anything of the land. Both the Messrs. 
Porterfield became entirely satisfied that J. had made the infamous statement 
charged upon him, and we are informed upon reliable authority, that there 
cannot be a doubt of his having made it. 

" Notwithstanding this, however, the all'air might have been dropped here, 
but for the fact that on Friday, Judson and Mrs. Porterfield were known to 
be alone together for a considerable time at the graveyard in the vicinity of 
the town. When this circumstance was revealed to her unfortunate husband, 
he fell to the floor as if a ball had penetrated his heart. He was of a singu- 
larly amiable and confiding disposition, and devotedly sittached to his wife. 

'• In this frame of body and mind he proposed fo his brother, John Por- 



terfield, on Saturday about half past three o'clock, to take a walk, without 
any expectation, it is seriousl}' believed, of meeting with J. Unfortunately, 
however, they met with J. near the Sulphur Spring-, when a rencontre im- 
mediately took place. Judson took an opportunity when Robert Porter- 
field's head was turned, to shoot him just along side of the occipital bone, 
the bullet passing out of the right eye, of which wound Mr. Porter field died 
that night about 11 o'clock. 

;,'B" The news, that Judson had killed Porterfield soon spread like wildfire. 
The public mind, roused up to a pitch of deep and maddening excitement, 
was in a condition to be thrown ott its balance. 

"A large crowd soon collected in and round the Court House where J., 
who had been immediately apprehended, was brought before the examining 
Court. The ('ourt was in the act of preparing an order for his committal 
to jail, when J. Porterfield, frantic at his brother's death and injuries, made 
his appearance in the. court room, and the cry burst forth from the crowd, 
'Make way for John Porterfield — let him kill Judson! ' 

"The Sheriff Lanier, who was in the clerk's box, where also was Judson, 
sprang forward and met Porterfield, who had jumped over the railing and 
behind the bar, about midway between the railing and the box, seized, and 
with the aid of one of his assistants, held him for some moments, Porterfield 
struggling violently to release himself from their grasp. This he finally 
effected by the aid of some friend, who overpowered the Sheriff, and, draw- 
ing a pistol, commenced filing at Judson, who started in a run out of the 
house, Porterfield following in close pursuit, and firing at him as often as 
occasion would permit, down the steps, across from the Court House to the 
City Hotel, and up the steps of the staircase of the hotel. One or two gen- 
tlemen endeavored to aid Judson in escaping to the hotel, but Porterfield and 
his friends followed so closely in pursuit that they were compelled to 
retire, and Judson, in hopes of effecting his escape, jumped, or more pro- 
bably, swung himself off from the portico of the third story, and fell to the 
ground stunned by the fall. 

" Here we most sincerely wish we could end our painful narrative. But 
it is not permitted to us. About 10 o'clock that night, a considerable num- 
ber of persons, among whom, we are informed, were a /lumber of our most 
respectable citizens, still laboring under the intense excitement which the 
occurrences of the day hnd produced, proceeded to the jail, and against the 
remonstrances and in defiance of the jailor, possessed themselves of the 
keys, grasped Judson, and proceeded with him to the public square with the 
avowed intention of hanging him. This, however, was not done. The 
rope, it is said, with which it was attempted to hang him, broke. We 
suspect it was intentionally cut. Reason had by this time begun to re- 
sume its sway, and Judson was finally carried back to jail and delivered 
into the hands of the keeper by the same party wlio had taken him out. 
His situation, we understand, is somewhat precarious, rendered so by the 
bruises he received, and possibly from some internal injury, occasioned by 
his fall from the portico." 

" Me cheated the linngman sadly one day ; 
That (lay he escaped the gallows doom, 
lie cheated the devil liimaelf, I say, 
Who thought of his soul to maUea prey. 
Butiio Boul had the rogue to be borne away." 

What more need we say to the above ? His hand against every man, and 
every man's hand against him; as usual, he fled from the city deeply in debt, 
deeper in dishonor, and, did his dim-eyed vanity but see with the spectacles 
of truth, he would find his soul spotted with the crimson blood of the English 



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sailor; Seberina and her babe ; Mr. Potierfield's Wool also glistpning on his 
hands; while the widow, with character siainH, reputation blackened, and her 
husband festering in his giave, points with bloodless fiinger to the butcher 
who TET walks the earth under the gaib of a reformer ! 

Kead the following letter to Mr. Graham from an eye witness : 
NASHVILLE, TENN. 
J\'ed Bunllines career at jVashville — T/ie allenml Seduction nf Portcrfield's 

wife by him. The SAootin": affair and death of Portcrjidd. — Lynch Law 

applied to Buntline. — Miraculutis escape from extraordinary peril. 

Is'as-uvjlle, Tenn. April 'lOth, tSlg. 
"C. G.Graham, Es<i.: 

" De/.r Sir: — Perceiiing by yout useful and spirited paper, that you are exposing 
the life and character of E. C. Z. Jl'Dson, now iii your city, ami also observing that the 
accounts respecting his career and narrow escape from ttie honors of LY^'CH Law in this 
place, arc generally incorrect, I have taken the liberty to ai.'dress ynu, with a view of 
presenting a truest.iteineni (ram first to last, setting down nought in malice, nor in the least 
extenuating the guilt of the hero of those perilous scenes.. 

" On Chrislmas week, in the year , the ladies of the Episcopal Society of Nash- 
ville, held a Fair, in a builclinir, a few doors Irnm Planters' Bank. Mrs. Porleifield kept 
th.' Picture (iailery of the fair, to which 25 cents admission was cl.argcd. Judson, 
through .some tact or peculiaiiiy of address, contrived to obtain an introduction with this 
lady. He was at the time publishing ^ seven-by -nine-iiHper, called "Ned Buntline's 
Own," in which appeared a notice of Mrs. P., alluding to her as a beantiliil woman and 
e.xaitiug her accoinjilishmeiits, &c., which flattery had the elloct to iagialiate him in her 
good ojiinion, never having her name appear before in the public ]irii.ts. 

" A few evenings subsequent to the closing of tire Fair, Judson was oliscrved lingering 
round the residence of i\lrs Porlertield, a minor imir.ediaiely afterwards connected Jud- 
son's name with that of Mrs. P's in a discredilable manner. This corning to her hus- 
band'sear, he called on Judson and politely requested him to ktcp away from his house, 
as he was destroying the peace of his family. Judson promised that he would comply 
with his wishes, but soon after was observed with Mrs Porterfield in a burying-ground 
in the suburbs of the city. Whelher that meeting was the result of chance or a]ipointed 
assignation, is not certainly known. Porterfield again sought an interview wiih Judson, 
and threatened to kill him if he did not desist from intimacy or association with his wife, 
when Judson again solemnly promised that Porterfield should have no cause of uneasi- 
ness on the score of his own and wife's honor. 

" Remonstrance and threats were equally in vain to alter Ned's course of conduct; for, 
while through his paper or that dvy, he was prating of virtue, he was in pot-houses 
boasting of JMrs. Portertield's seduction; and every body here believes that his unnatural 
impulses, desolating deeds, and insensate cruelties to his then dying wife, were consum- 
mated by the defilement of Mrs. Poiterfield. Certain it is, that on t^iiiuiay afternoon, 
Judson and another young man were at the sulphur springs shooting at a mark, which 
practice he was indulging in, as he said the evening before, with malice-illumined fea- 
tures, " to make a handsome present to the hu.sbaiid of his new mistiess." Mr. Porter- 
field and his brother met Judsi.n on his return from ball jiractice, and afler some angry 
words, Nkd satisfied his thirst for blood by sheathing a bullet into the injured hlisband's 
brain I His wife "Seberina" had been sacrificed to death by him but a few weeks previ- 
ousiy — she died a skeleton If this piolilic fiend had n.uch power, he must soon convert 
the earth into a jiaudemonium, and men into deinon,s. The news of the murder spread 
like wild- fire over the city, and Judson was promptly arrested, and taken to the court 
house, which speedily became densely thronged with an excited populace, demanding 
the blood of the murderer. Portcrfield's brother also appeared and commencing firing 
at Judson, who escaped into the yard, where he was knocked down by a negro with a 
stone. 

"Though much hurt, he sprang to his feet, and fled to a private door of the Cily Hotel, 
which he lound closed against his entrance. Here he was overtaken by the brother of 
Porterfield who again fired upon him. Judson the second or third time, miraculously 
escaped uninjured by the pistol ebols, and found his way into the fourth story of the 
hotel, where he secreted himself. Here he was at length discovered by a man, when he 



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sprang out upon the roof of a porch, and thence to the ground, breaking his right arm, 
and otherwise mai.ning himself by so doing 

" The mob cried out ' Throw him in the river,' and such appeared to be their purpose, 
when some one said that Judson was dead, and thereupon he was conveyed to the city 
prison. 

" About seven o'clock, P. M., a crowd of persons went to the jail anu demanded the 
body of Judson, which of course the jailer refused to surrender. They then broke into 
the prison, seized Judson, and bore him to the public square, A rope was placed about 
his neck, and thrown over the awning railing; in front of the clothing store ot Amelius, 
when he was drawn up, and suspended about a foot from the ground. A man from the 
Cumberland mountains, who was selling coal, now interposed and cut him down, when 
he was taken back to prison. Here Ue remained three months, when he was furnished 
with a suit of female apparel, and, thus dis^juised, placed on board a steamboat, with 
steam up, re.idy to start for Cincinnati, which city he readied without further adventure 
worthy of rrote. 

" While Judson sojourned at Nashville, his wife lived, or rather staid, at Clarksville, 
about seventeen miles below Nashville. He suii'ered her to remain without food and 
without clothing, while he was spending his lime, strength, and money, with prostitutes, 
and disgracing himself in dririking ami gambling. 

"Judson has said in his paper, th.it he was aitacked on this occasion by a party of 
gamblers. This is not true. They were some ot die most respectable people of Nash- 
ville, merchants, and others doing a legitimate business, whose feehngs of indignation 
against Judson became e.vcited in view of the wretch's invasion of Poileifield lireside and 
matrimonial felicity. 

"As Judson says he is making money, it may be proper lo remind him through ' The 
Scorpion,' that there remains quite a number of claims against him for board and other- 
wise in this place, unliquidated. " Yours, respectfully, 

An Eye Witness." 



NED'S BEGINNING IN NEW YORK. 

" ' Tis he ! I ken the manner of his gait .'" 

Ned Buntline, after having been kicked out of Nashville, with an einpty 
pocket and black heart, went on his way rejoicing, being as he himself styled 
f, " a gay widower, and in the market again." With this consolation to 
sustain him, -he arrived in New York, as the best city left in the Union, for the 
perpetration of matrimony to replenish his necessities. " The devil's luck," 
it is said, " always follows his children," which saying was amply verified 
in Ned's case. Honest labor and Ned being natural enemies, and his de- 
pravit}', increased by low associations, added to his natural stock of sensual 
vice, carried his ideas so humbly, that in the month of December, 1847, not 
expecting better forturre, he gives a hair bracelet, writes maudin love-letters 
(now in her possession) to a young girl of the city at that moment doing a 
good Business in Broadway, which he thought to obtain possession of. Ned 
offered her marriage, and — was rejected ! Even she felt herself far above 
him, and she was right ; she knew he only wanted to live on the fruits of her 
employment, and she spurned him. 

" Nothing but himself can be his parallel." 

The next move of this moral monster was chara'cteristic. He started a 
work called the "Mysteries and Miseries of New York," which is one of the 
vilest plagiarisms the sun ever shone upon. It is simply a prosy conglo- 
meration about pickpockets, burglers, rowdies, and prostitutes, based on a 
low English novel called " Ada ; or, the Mysteries of Low Life in London," 
published by »^Loyd" of London, remarkable for his obscenity and scurrili- 



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ty. Ned has literally copied this work, words, plot and all, only altering 
it enough to suit New York life and New York names. Ned certainly has 
a right to believe that humbug is the cement of the social fabric ; that it is 
the sticks and twigs of the world. It certainly has been to Ned, the dulcet 
bell that has called him to the feast of good things. 

We cannot do better than give tlie following critique upon the "Mysteries 
and Miseries," which book the writer very justly calls a 

"BAWDY-HOUSE DIRECTORY." 

" Moral Literature. — The most sorrowful feature of the day, is the 
apparent gusto exhibited for literary scurrility, and which has been liberally 
pandered to by a fractional part of the press. The conductors of that press 
have exultingly gloated over the demoralized taste created by the writings 
of a Sue, Dumas, Ainsworth, or Reynolds, and in their endeavors to distort 
scenes and life in America, have rendered their publications nothing but 
brothel directories. 1 refer more particularly to the horrid trash sold by 
the names of " Mysteries and Miseries of New York" and "Ned Buntline's 
Own," which are certainly well-named, being both mysterious and misera- 
ble misguiding productions, intended to give lascivious and exciting descrip- 
tion of the ichereabouts of gambling, thieving, and prostitution. 

"Ybe pretence for such a literature has been '■'■reform,''' while the ref7/ object 
•has been "Black Mail." Granting, hnwevcr, that reform was rea//y inten- 
ded, we have yet to ascertain how it was to be accomplished by pointing out 
to young men M'Ae/v gambling is carried on, or to wives and daughters, where 
assignation houses are located? Can any really reflectmg mind believe that 
such dreadful evils are compensated by the hypothetical good these reformers 
jabber about 1 

" When Schiller's Tragedy of the " Robbers'' was first brought out 
in Germany, scores of young men from the universities and other places 
betook themselves to robbery en amateur ; and in London, the effect of the 
novel and play of '• Jack Sheppard," was, that the praises of thieves and 
thievery were in every youngster's mouth. Simple, indeed, is he who imag- 
ines his wife, son, or daugliter best protected by the preposterous solecism 
of introducing them into the purlieus of every vice. Gambling and prosti- 
tution are hidden and local, but these improvident sheets drag the disgusting 
abominations from obscurity, and familiarize the half-inclined, the weak- 
minded, or the strongly-tempted. 

These scandals of the press are also, as far as their influence goes, a scandal 
upon America, and their blurting libels are gloried in by aristocrats and 
autocrats, who retail them to the dupes of their servitude, as examples of 
Republicanism. The minion scribblers of England would, indeed, be glad 
to read in the sheet of one of our pretended patriots, " that every fifth house 
was an assignation shop and every third female a prostitule." Such was 
Ned's assertion. Thank heaven the lie recoiled upon the liar, and was 
harmless! 

For ourselves we scorn such lip-puritans and ear-pietists, and would 
rather turn our indignation upon the institutions that licenses such vices, 
or upon the directors and guardians of our education and morals that 
allows us to fall, if these creatures were to be believed, below ever^ the 
lowest Pagan standard of morality. 



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NED'S INTRODUCTION TO MR. BENNETT'S FAMILY. 

About New Year's festival, 184-S, or within one week of his rejection by 
a young girl, was our Paragon Moralist introduced to the family of Mr. 
Bennett. The introduction took place through Lieutenant Potter, who had 
just returned from Mexico. Ned's very introduction commenced by an 
infamous betrayal of his then friend Lieutenant Potter. This young gentle- 
man HOW, and for many months, has better known Ned's character; and 
on Saturday, the 18th of August, 1849, in the open Court, to Ned Buntline's 
FACE, told him, that he, " Lieutenant Potter, of the U. States 3d Regt., knew 
Ned to be a liar, coward, and assassin, a seducer, a murderer!" Reader! 
the young brave who said these stinging words to the braggart Ned is an 
American, a soldier, and an honest man. Ned is every tiling else. Potter, 
who is an unsophisticated and really brave man, more anxiously employed 
fighting the enemies of the State, than bragging about his bravery in oyster 
cellars or drunkeries ; knew nothing of the serpentile creature who fawned 
upon him on his return from the war of Mexico. Mr. Bennett's family is an 
unostentations one — each member more particular about his own duty, 
than othciouslj' looking after other peoples'. In easj' circumstances, free 
from care and strife, they knew little more of the peddling rogueries of 
mean-minded souls than landsman linow of storms at sea. Ned heard all 
this — knew Mr. Bennett had a lovely daughter — expected, of course, she 
would have some money, and laid his schemes accordingly. Ned was intro- 
duced with his rusty beard, and dressed as a Spanish Grandee ; he anticipat- 
ed to make quite a sensation. He did, but a very unfavorable one upon 
most of the family. Ned saw his failure, and its cause ; but the prize was 
too great to be lightly abandoned. He saw that Mr. William Bennett was 
a favorite son in the family — he paid court to this young man — flattered 
him — fawned upon him — like Othello, also, he bragged to Miss Annie 
Bennett, (whom he determined to capture), of battles, dangers, and hair- 
breadth escapes that he had 7ievcr seen, spoke of accidents that he never met 
•with — and distressful scenes he never witnessed, except those he had caused 
by his cruelty and deceit in private and public. In short, so indefatigable 
was his pursuit — so barefaced was his flattery of Wm. Bennett, such fawn- 
ing adulation did he offer to Miss Annie B. — so complete were his toils for 
the whole family, that as described by some of themselves, they were mes- 
merized and benoodled ere they had fairly time to consider where he was 
leading them to. Ned made the best possible use of his time ; and what 
by professing religion with the parents, as he had done previously in Se- 
berina's case, and babbling flattery in the younger portions's ears, he con- 
summated his grand drama of hypocrisy, apostacy, and revolting mendacity 
"by the marriage of Mr. Bennett's daughter, and from that hour converted 
that home from a bower of peace and purity, into a burning hell, pestiferous 
with disease and dismay ; and the too credulous and unsuspecting daughter 
— she who was lately a gay, mild, and happy being, with young fresh feel- 
ings, and opening hopes budding in the sunny light of her innocent heart, 
has had them all shrouded in gloom, and chilled with disappointment — 
while the moral reformer ! like Satan in the Garden of Eden, smiles ex- 
ultingly over the Paradise he was desolated ! ! ! 

Men and woman of America, can I be wrong in pulling the mask from 
this contemptible mountebank's face, and exposing his demoniac hypocri- 
sies, and his heartless vanities 1 Can I be wrong in branding rascal on 
the front of his atrocities 1 Shall this donkey's .selfishness be pandered to by 
a benevolent public, because he hangs a lion's hide upon his shoulders 1 



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Shill this surveyor of falsehoods — this trampler upon innoc>»nce — this ca- 
lumnla'or of nis OWN wife! — this defamer of his own fatnily — this patron 
of prostitution — this murderer of his fellows— this noted drunkard — this im- 
pure compound, be tolerated by society, and his paper, or BAVvoy-lldnsB 
Directory, be allowed in the houses of respectable f.imilies without their 
hearts sickening,tend their flesh creeping with horror! Shall females be 
exposed to the contamination of a paper, the sentiments of which a respect- 
able female would sooner die than utter! 



" NED BUTLINE'S OWN" IS STARTED. 

A Trap to Catch Flats. 

" J^Ted's Own," was the first fruits of his command of cash and credit. A« 
in criminal practice, the gre.itest rogue always turns States evidence, so did 
Ned, in accordance with that fact, commence as the reformer of all refor- 
mers ! The greatest rascal invariably makes the greatest pretences to 
morality. People stared at first sight of the placards announcing his " Own," 
or " Bawdy-house Directory,'' and exclaimed, what a prodigious reformer to 
be sure ! His pretensions and appetite for reforming threw into the shade 
the far-famed dragon of Wantley, who 

" Ate up tlie church, ate up the steeple. 
Ate parsoD, clerk, and all the people." 

Ned was not such a desperate reformer after all. He slept in a house of 
ill-fame the very week before his marriage— he was a regular frequenter of 
such places till the very morning of his marriage ; yea, good, easy, gullible 
PUBLIC, Ned carried to his new-made bride a nameless disease, at which the 
very soul recoils. Yes, Public, Ned, the reformer, while he was gulling 
you with VIRTUOUS declamations — 3-es, daughters of temperance, while he 
was delivering speeches, from paper, to you, upon Chastity, Sobriety, and 
all that sort of thing, this Ned was carousing in the various hell-holes of 
this verj- city. 

The following article from the Sunday Courier speaks for itself: — 

" The ' Lady's Book,' as our readers are probably aware, is edited by Mrs. Sarah J. 
Hale, and we presume, that before commitling herself so far as to puff this Buntline, she 
must have made herself acquainted with the character of the fellow she laudales. The 
lady is, we believe, a native of the land of steady habits, and one of unquestionable res- 
s'pectahility; we confess, therefore, that it «;ave us no little surprise, to see a periodical 
bearing her name as editor, even alluding to such a vile sheet, as that published by this 
homickle, and defamer of female character. His a • jihilanthropic ellbri,' indeed !— il is, 
on the contrary, a species of misanthropic one, for it proceeds from a deeply diseased 
mind— instead of taking a 'stand against vice and immorality'— he j^-, secretly aiding 
them, and living, as we understand he was once willing to do, upon tlie wages of pros- 
titution. His name ' is a terror to evil-doers,' only when they h;ive no „,£ney to pur- 
chase his silence ; and we have no doubt thai he is so steeped in infamy, as to be capable 
of leaditig a man into a disgraceful action, and then e.\tort money to save hiin from 
e.vposure. 

" What do the publ'C suppose to be the motive of the dark hints we see in every num- 
ber of his paper— that Mr. A must discontinue his visits to a certain place, and Miss 

B had better not walk in such a direction too often, as she is watched, etc., etc. .'—is 

it that lh(kfellow is opposed to immoral ty > Not fo— he is no ajioslle of morality from a 
BiQcere love of its principles, as is proved by his character up to the present time — no, he 



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•tarted his paper wilh the avowed inlenfion of making money, and boasts that he only 
wants five years to realize an independence ; and i( permilled by the authorities to pnblish 
it, or could such a paper exist so long, we have no doubt that hi? intentions would be 
realized 

" We have heard of moral vampires who have lived on the fears of their victims, until 
death released them from their hellish bondage ; — ^just such a wretch is puntline ; and his 
paper an instrument of torture, by which he wrings monej from those whose traiisgres- 
•ions have placed them wilhin his power. This is the species of ' philanthropy' with 
which Buntline is influenced, and is akin to that for which the law provides a penalty, 
viz , extorting money by threats, &c. 

" If the ladies of Philadelphia know this fellow, we shall have to apply to them for 
information upon certain points in his life, not at present fully explained — we are in pos- 
session of certain facts connected with his career in Boston and Quincy, and can track his 
career after his arrival at New York, perhaps more closely than would be agreeable to 
him; but, inasmuch as ' what is sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander,' he surely 
cannot complain if only served as he serves other people.' 

" We are collating facts, which we shall publish in weekly portions, under the head of 
• Buntline's Morality,' (excepting such as are too gross for our columns, and tho.se we will 
exhibit to any one who may desire to see them) all tending to show ihe great fitness (.') 
of this fellow to improve the morals of the community! We do so fiom no personal 
feeling, for we have never exchanged a word with him — nor from any retaliatory spirit, 
for he never, that we are aware of, has writen a word in our dispraise ; but we 
feel it is the duty of respectable journalists to expose the venality of such a scamp, 
and place the public on their guard against a most dangerous hypocrite. 

" We are aware that every number of this sheet is indictable by the Grand Jury, and 
that Mr. McKeon is derelict in his duty in failing to bring it to their notice — did he per- 
form his duty faithfully, there would be no necessity for our efforts, but his negligence, 
for we will not call bis conduct by a harsher name, renders it imperative upon the press 
to denounce such a sheet, and we shall not cease to do so until our object is accomjilisbed. 
" We have already stated, that we can track Buntline's course for some time alter his 
arrival in this city, subsequently to his hasty exit from Tennessee, where he narrowly es- 
caped lynching, for having boasted of seducing the vv'ife of ano her; but we may have to 
apply to the ladies of Philadelphia, where they puff him and his sheet, lor still iurther in- 
formation. Can they tell us where he lived, how he lived, and wilh whom he lived, previ- 
ous to his marriage .' Do they know if a certain note given to a Mrs Patrick of Canal 
Street, for the board of a Mrs. Judson, has ever been repudiated .' Will they inform us 
where he lodged on the eve of his marriage, and why he lodged alone for a short time 
afterwards ? Do they know why his marriage took place in the morning, instead of thai a 
evening, as first announced ; These are questions that we intend to answer, by-and by ; if 
and in the meantime we would propound one to the city authorities. ' V.'ill they be good 
enough to inform us, why the coward braggadocio Buntline, is not indicted for carrying 
concealed weapons:' 

" We are aware that it is almost impossible to have anything to do with a fellow, who 
could be guilty of issuing such a sheet as ' Ned's Own,' without defiling ours ; but we 
shall caretully guard against such a result, and while exposing his vileness, take care not 
to rendar ourselves amenable to the charge of coarseness or indelicacy. We cannot avoid ' 
personality, so far as he is concerned, but shall never go beyond Ihe necessary limits, and 
shall circumscribe them as much as possible." 

Such is the reformer whom the daughtehs of temperance patronise ! ! 
Such is the monster who is dubbed the champioiN of native Americanism!! 
Such is the Moral Pest &pme of the Lickspittles of the press delight to 
honor ! ! 



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NED'S CONSISTENCES. . * 

He blows hot and cold with the same breath. 

In "Ned's Own" or "Bawdy-House Directory" last summer, appeared the 
folllowing : — 

PRECEPT AND PRACTICE. 

" 1 said, a few mimliers since, that 1 should soon hoist the tempeiance (lag. When I 
«aid so, I was in earnest, and to prove it, look the first possible public opportunity to lake 
a step uhich I do not wish to conceal or recall H.iving been called upon to make a 
few remarks before the " L. N. Fowler Society of Daughters of 'f'einperance," in response 
to a very eloquent speech of Mr. Fowler, who then and there presented to tliem a magni- 
ficent Bible, I took the opportunity to fay, that I was a man of deeds more than words; 
that I write better than I could talk; and to prove it, placed my signature beneath their 
pledge. I did this — not because I was in the habit of drinking freely, but because I 
deemed it my duty to practice all that I preached, t never smoked or chewed ihat weed 
neat house-keepers and kiss-loving girls so detest; I now drink no wine; 1 think there- 
fore, that I may with safety hoist the flag of 

" TE.MFERANCE." 

There it goes — up with it, and 1 pledge myself and my patrons to guard it well ! 

" 1 shall soon open a battery upon the habit of keeping the grog shops of this city open 
on Sundays, against law- and gospel ; of keeping them open after the hour of ten at night ; 
and afler I have got that part of my work done I'll go further. If the advocates of tem- 
perance will go on slowly and} temperately — steadily and firmly — remove the moun- 
tain of evil, piece by piece, instead of burs.ing every blood-vessel by straining to lift 
it all at once, they will succeed. Now that the ladies, God bless them, are at 
work, f feel confident of their ultimate success. Go on in your duty, true-hearted 
Daughters of Temperance; I have enrolled me beneath your flag and am at your com- 
mand. 

" Vou must excuse me if I am a little stupid in my editorials this week ; I am not used 
to the cold water regime yet, but I'll soon be as br ghl and ?sparkling as the jet which 
flings its spray, ceiling-higli in fountain Hall." 

Will the public believe that the evening afler this address was delivered, 
Ned was more than half seas over in a Brothel, at No. 77, Lispenard- 
street 1 Such is the fact. The Editors of the New York Sunday Courier 
KNEW him very well, and, instead of linking themselves to drag his disgust- 
ing car of vice over the mire of human ignorance, chose the noble part of 
enlightening that ignorance as the press ought to do. Thus it speaks : 

NED'S OWN AND NED'S MORALS. 

Macbeth. — I'll not fight with thee. 

Macduff. — Then yield thee, coward, 

And live the show and gaze o' ihe lime. 

We'll have thee, as our rarer monsters are, 

Painted upon a pole, &c. SnAKSPEAnE. 

"When the sanguinary tyrant Macbeth, found that h^was not invulnerable, he refu- 
sed to fight with Macduli ; yet he was no coward, e.tcept ^uclvas guilty conscience makes 
of us all. Buntline's conscience has led him to say with reference to ourselves, " I'll not 
iight with thee;" for we discovered his vulnerable part, and he cowers beneath the well 
directed blow we administered last week. It was not our aim to provoke a fight with euch 
a creature — we should as .^oon think of condescemliiig to fisty-cuffs with a sweep — our 
sole object was to expose the fellow's villanies and hypocrisy, and then let him go. But 
if he suposes that his silence will induce us to be merciful, he is mistaken — when we 
have thoroughly painted him upon a pole, as it were — when we have caused his iminor- 
rality to slick to him like a coat of tar and feathers, so that every one may know the fel- 
ow, then, and not till then, shall we consider that we have performed our duty. 



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"And we would reiterate that we have not the slightest personal feeling in this matter, 
nor the slightest interest in th" resnit, more than every other good citizen has- — we find 
him blackening private character — attacking individuals from mercenary and coiiupl mo- 
tives, and pretending lo commence a crusaile against immorality ! and we are led to ask, 
■what sort of man is this, who comes among us for such purposes? The man who 
preaches morality, should himself be moral ; or at leadt, his immorali'.ies should not be 
known — • Example goes before precept,' and what sort of example does this fellow's 
conduct afTord ?— a seducer — a homicide — a gambler — a companion of lewd woTien^a 
frequenter of houses of ill-fame — and may we not add — a murderer ; — does not the voice 
from the grave of a young female of this lily, yet cry for vengeance upon him ? 

" He knows well, that we are acquainted with facts which, could we sully our co- 
lumns with the recita', would doubtless biing down upon him some mark of public in- 
dignation— there are many of his acts, however, that we cannot paiticularly lefcr to — 
they are so shocking — so indecent, so brutal, that should we do so, it would degrade the 
character of our journal. However, there are some portions of his career that we may 
yet lay before our readers — we feel that we now have him in our power— the rod is held 
in terrorem, and we may yet be tempted to give him the full benefit of an extensive pub- 
lication of his rascalities. We shall watch his " black mail" paper closely, and admin- 
ister our chastisements as they may be deserved. The history of his immoralities, how- 
ever, wc shall give to our readers from lime to time, as we have leisure to put in such a 
shape, as may not prove offensive. It will furnir.h an e.vcellent sequel to Buntline's 
•' Mysteries and Miseries of New York." 



NEDS PHILANTHROPY. 

What J\fed gives is nothing to nobody. 

If man's happiness is proportioned to his knowledge, what ignoramuses 
must be the country press ! In July, 1848, Ned commenced a pretented 
CRUSADE against the employers of sewing girls, thus by a make-believe 
catching the suffrages of a few simpletons, who perhaps really imagined 
Ned meant something, or who were shallow enough to think that the execra- 
tions of two or three tradesmen would cure the evil. Such a simpleton 
was the following correspondent, cut from Ned's Own, or Bawdy-House Di- 

KECTORV. 

"Ned Buntline, who goes nn unmasking vice, crime, and oppression, with a fearlessness 
perfectly astounding, to these who have been doing their evil works in secret for years, and 
hiding away iheir victims from the public gaze, has taken up the cause ol the sewing girls, 
and is giving ihe names of certain cheap clothing men, who pay the living (.') price of six 
cents for making a shin ! If 'Ned ' comes off without 'damage ' in his crusade againsi 
evil, he may thank his stars. One thing is certain, he is 'not afiaid.' " 

Not particularly afraid of any damage, kind sir ; but so long as one-half the papers in the 
city oppose rclorm and encourage vice, and the other half work with their gloves on, I am 
'afraid" it will be a life-time'a labor to carry out the objects of reform. But I'm a go- 
ahead-ative, never-tire-out-alive, won't let-'em-go-aiive sort of a fellow ; and if I live long 
enough, I will mow a big swath before I'm done — wind and weather permitting." 

Now, read what a N. Y. contemporary says at that period, who had much 
better opportunity of judging, than a cringing, undeserving country paper — 
most likely subsidized to giVe the puff: 

" NED BONTLINES OWN " PHILANTHROPY. 
Neddy's philanthropy is about Qn a par is with morality. It is of the shabbiest 
and dirtiest sort. He has espoused the cause of the seamstreses, (poor crea- 
tures,) and other women probably with the hope of extracting a few sixpences 
from their hard earings. and getting a kitchen circulation for his mendacious 
paper. Neddy is very severe upon their employers who give low wages to 
women and upon those men who purchase cheap clothing. But, as might be 



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expected from such a villanoiis humbu":, Ned is a terrible screw himself, to 
the poor. While he was writing his Ibl-derol about the poor sewing girls, 
he was, running around among the printing offices trying to get his '• Mys- 
teries and iMiseries" printed at the lowest figure possible. First he makes a 
bargain with a printer, who for the sake of a job, takes it at a very low price; 
he tlien goes to a another office where he bargains for two cents a token (250 
sheets,) less than he has already agreed to pay the other printer, who, rath- 
er than lose the work, agreis to come down two cents in his price. Having 
succeeded in his meanness thus far, he then goes to another office, where he 
gets an ofl'er still less, and so takes the job from theothers after inducintr them 
to go below a fair price in the hope of obtaining the work. Now, Neddy 
knew, of course, that if the printer made a deduction in his price, he would, 
of necessity, be compelled to make a corresponding reduction in the wages 
of the poor women who tended his presses. But what did Neddy care for 
that ! His object was not to benefit the workmen, but to benefit himself. 

Another instance of his contemptible meanness is furnished by his treat- 
ment of oni' of his carriers. When Neddy was first making arrangements 
to publish his rascally paper, he induct d a tiighly respectable carrier to 
take a route for the "Own" byofleringit to him at a less rate than he 
sold it fo any other carrier, and pledged his honor to sell it to him at the 
same rate as long as he should continue to serve it. With these promi.'ses 
the young man went to work, and by means of his industry got up a re- 
spectable route ; but no sooner did Neddy perceive that he was likely to do 
well, than he desired his clerk to inform the carrier that he had raised the 
price of the paper. The carrier supposed there was some mistake, not be- 
ing aware at that time of Buntline's dishonest and dishonorable character, 
and called on him for some explanation, when, as usual, the fellow lacked 
the manliness to tell the truth, and shufHed out of it by telling the man to 
go on serTing the paper, and that " he would make it all right." Thus as- 
sured, he continued to serve the route, and when the time arrived for the 
settlen-.ent of the account, he was told by the clerk that Buntline had 
changed his mind, and insisted on receiving the advanced price. Again 
the carrier called on Buntline, and was then referred to his father-in-law 
Mr. Bennett, who, he stated, refused to recognize the c mtiact made at the 
outset. He then waited on Bennett, who said that he cared nothing about 
the promise of Buntline, he must pay the price demanded. . 

The carrier, however, refused to do so, and prefered selling his route. 
The conduct of the scamp Buntline and his equivocation so disgusted him, 
that he ] a:'fed with his route for one fifth of its value. He then tendered the 
amount due his original contract, which was refused, and knowing that he 
had right and justice on his side, he positively declined to pay any more, 
Ned iy then ])ublished his name conspicuously in his scand ilous sheet, so 
as to convey the impression that the carrier had been guilty of some misde- 
meanor. vSo much ibrthis Buntline's honor, and honesty, and sympathy for 
the poor ! 

Almost every designing knave who makes up his mind to rob the commu- 
nity of a living by hook or by crook, commences with a dismal Jeremiad a- 
bout the wages of females, and talks about the sufferings of the poor, Bun- 
tline appears to be one of that sort; and that he might with impunity rob 
the poor, and extort money from the timid rich, he begins his dastardly cause 
by pretending to be a philanthropist. But philanthropists do not usually 
carry concealed weapons about thera, nor shoat men after doing them an in- 
jury." 



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CHAPTER OF LIBELS. 

While Ned was affecting indignation at the editors of the " Sun" for in- 
serting what Buntline called an "obscene advertisement''^ — don't laugh, 
reader — Ned inserted in his own Bawdy-House Directory, this : 

" Many of ray triends have asked me since ;he issue of last week's paper, if I did not fear 
that JVI. V. Beach would libel me — Unowiiig as they did that he had an imraense capital to 
back him. I have laughed at the idea. 1 wish no better advertisement than for such a 
man as Beach to libel me. A villain's slander is always an honest man's praise — and the 
sooner Mr Beach applies the libel test to my character, the better it will be for me. 1 aio 
ready lor it, and equal to all. As to a hint, without a name being mentioned — a poor cow- 
ardly way of doing things is that hinting — about an officer being expelled Jrora the Navy, 
or a hint about seduction, which the Sun of Monday gives, the Sun knew belter than to 
mention the name. If Mi>.ses Y. Beach publishes a lie about me, I will sue him for libel — 
but never, if he only tells the truth. 1 have never been guilty of any greater crime than 
poverty, I believe — and that of course is a crime in the eyes of Mr. Eeach. As to my naval 
career — wJienil find it necessary, I shall publish euchdociimenis as any man might be proud 
of, and as well might make a man envious, whose own character was so bad that he 
couldn't get his innocent son into the navy. My resignation — honorable resignation — with 
nocause for it, but the fact that my poor wife was on a sick bed — supposed to be dying, at 
a time when I was under orders to'sail for a distant foreign station, is recorded at the depart- 
ment; and was officially announced at the time. Therelere, let Mr. Beach dare to say 
that I was e.xpelled from the Navy, and he shall find himself forced into an attempt to 
prove it. 

"A^tohis hint about seduction, that, too, he will have to prove, or suffer the penalty 
for lying. 1 tell no more about Mr. Beach than I am ready and prepared to prove — let him 
keep the same mark, and see who will come out the brightest from the contest." 

Also the following from a hint in the " Path-Finder ;'' 

"The P?th-Finder of Monday, April 2d., deals.out a mean insinuation, in endeavoring 
to give a notice of this paper, and ' hints' that I have leceived ' black-mail.' I dare its ed- 
itor to the proof of any such thing ; and if he or hi.s paper ha,s respousibiUty, and will pub- 
lish a direct charge of that kind, 1 will test the question before a coiu't of law at once. 1 am 
a plain-spoken, plain acting man, above any meanness of that kind, and I will not quietly 
hear even a cowardly insinuation from any source. I have called the PathFiadera good 
and useful paper. So it is — but I see no reason why it should stoop to falsehood and 
calumny to injure one who never injured it, without it, as sundry other papers have in 
this city, attacks me lo gain a notice, and thereby extend its circulation. The I'aihFin- 
den may consider itself a little ahead of them, however, for it is worthy of a notice. 
If the editor of the paper will only speak out plain enough for the law to understand 
his meaning, I'll give him every cliance to prove such a charge — or, failing in the proof, 
to regret that he has attacked me unjustly ! I wish him no harm — but he mu.sn't tread 
on me without expecting a reply .'" 

I now give two articles that speak both openly and honestly of Ned's 
honesty and honor. 

MORE ABOUT NED BUNTLINE AND HIS " OWN." 
"The writer of«the article (in the Sunday Courier) then severely castigates Ned Bunt- 
line, whose real name is Judsmi, once a resident of this city, for extorting money from 
thieves, gamsters, and broihel keeper.5, by threatening to publish them in a villanous publi- 
cation called his ''own." We heartily concur with the author of the article, in saying 
that it is a disgrace and scandal to our community, that the.^e disreputable prims should he 
allowed to exisf, and thrive, by making forced contributions, from a class of persons who 
have DO means of defending themselves from attack." 

Patil's (Phil.) Galaxy. 

Neddy has neither the courage nor the talent to fight even with his 
pen. When any one undertakes to expose the venal character of his dis- 
graceful sheet, he copies puffs he has paid to get inserted in some country 
papers, and parades them, with a great flourish, in his columns ! But it 
won't do— this fictitious reputation cannot benefit him, for his villaniQS 
are now too generally known. 



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The above is one of a vast number of similar notices, we are constantly 
receiving; and we are pleased to find that, both in and out of the city, 
the circulation of Ned's "Own"' is rapidly decreasing ; so much so, indeed, 
that probably the District Attorney may be spared the trouble of getting 
it presented by the Grand Jury. 

We are upon the track of something very rich with regard to Neddy 
Buntline's mode of making money, and affording proof of what we have 
more than once asserted, that no sinner need fear him who has money 
enough to purchase his silence — and that his excessive morality is never 
»o severely shocked, but that dollar bills will set all to rights speedily. We 
are waiting the affidavits in two cases, for we mnke no charges, as Neddy 
knows, without being able to substantiate them. In our allusions to his 
gross immoralities in this city and Boston, renewing the same courses 
which led to his disgraceful flight from Tennessee, we intimated sufhcient 
to convince him that his career was well known to us ; and finding that 
the lash was in the hands of those who knew how to use it, he has quietly 
attempted to conciliate us. by omitting in his paper the particular features 
to wiiicli we took exception. He has ce.ised his personal attacks, and if 
his secret spy system be still continued, he tnkes good care that no evi- 
dence of it shall appear. We have, therefore, accomplished some good, 
and if the fellow has any feelings of decenc}' — if his moral sensibilities be 
not entirely destroyed, and if he has any talent except that "flash'' kind 
he has hitherto exhibited, we may yet compel him to issue a respectable 
paper. 

We ha7e not attacked him because he opposed gambling, for we should 
be glad to see every gambling house in the city closed by the authorities; 
and he might have battled with immorality as long as he pleased, without 
any interference on our part ; but knowing him to be a hypocrite, assum- 
ing the guise of morality for his own mercenary ends ; and believing that 
he was making '-forced contributions from a class of persons, who had no 
means of defending themselves," we felt that the press was degraded by 
such a fellow, and that we were but doing our duty in exposing him ; and 
we have been upheld in our course by our own conscience, and the appro- 
val of our friends. 

He would have been glad to have silenced us, as he has th? poor wretch 
now confined in the Tombs at his instance, for only threatening to do 
what this Buntline has been doing every week: he keeps spies, forsooth, 
to watch the doings of our citizens — to wait at men's doors, and track 
them in their, evening rambles — to pry into the domestic circle, and pro- 
bably create mistrust and unhappiness, where all was confidence and 
peace before. Buntline does tiiis, and makes money by the speculation, 
but when some one proposes to serve him in the same way, and publishes 
his misdeeds, he is forthwith sued for libel, and incarcerated ! Heaven 
knows we are none of us much better than we ought to be. and if all th« 
deeds of any one were published to the world, there are few, perchance, 
that would "stand acquitted" of wrong ; it is, therefore, better to promote 
a feeling of universal charity, and we commend to Neddy a careful study 
of Pope's Universal Prayer, and sometimes hide ratlier than expose " the 
faults we see." The following lines we particularly commend to his con- 
sideration, for we shall adopt them in his case: 

" That mercy I to others show, 
That mercy show to me." £ Courier. 



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The following was the Prospectus of an intended Weekly Paper about 
one year ago, and although then it was thought too sweeping in its as- 
sertiiins about Ned, yet few who now know him will think the picture 
too highly drawn. 

A new weekly paper, whose object will he \n expose the hypocritical scoiindrelism and 
legal miscreancy of Ned Buntline in pKtticular, anil the blood dabbling demoralizers of 
Wall pireet, and its adjuncts in genera!. Its business will be to gibbet to execration the 
odious lurpiiude, mercenary ravings, shallow reasonings, maudlin rhapsodies, drivelling 
declamaiioii, catish rhodomoniade, abortive '• hits," and puttilyiniT rnorallly, portrayed in 
disgusting plira.^cology, by this plundering, blood-sucking, and addle-pated impostor Ned 
Buntline. 

This paper will represent social life as it really is, and not as this Neddy wonid make 
believe. It will prove that Jud.-on, alias Neddy, with the parly he pretends to delightand 
honor, are the vilest of uainblers, the most unscrupulous ot rascals, and the most vora- 
cious of cormorants: that Ned has been houahi to play the jiresent ' ruse,' which has ior 
its object the dia.vmg public attention from his own vilainies, to others, who, biung less 
known, and apparently helpless, are easier misrepresented, and, of course, decried. 

This paper will probe to th" quick the cancerous, imiilacable and vengeful brigands of 
the social worlil — it will tear down the tattered gauze-work hungup by such decoy-ducks 
as Ned Bunlfme. and show that the real roots of all our social evils, and the basis of all 
oppression, spoliation, cheerless penury, toilsome misery, and reckless oiilraKe, are the 
accursed spawn of such Tiocus-pocussing reptiles ; it will make unmistakeable that Ned's 
present virtuous afTectalion is a stale trick to make new du|'es, and then fleece them ; a 
trick to paint his own foul, fermenting character on a rose leaf lo make it smell the 
sweeter, and behind the deception, gratify his (nowj well known libidinous appetite, and 
un.sated and abominable genius in new realms of vice. 

In short, the "Avenger" will be a shield to all the victims of the present demoraliza- 
tion, an ailvorate lo the helpless, and an unswerving .scourge to the self-consliluied up- 
holders of a rotten and debasing morality — it will demonstrate that the outward .jiuuctilio 
of Ned is mere fudge, coqiieli>h prudery— that, mentally and morally speaking, there is 
not a dirtier dog in e.xistence — that he is the Kodin of liis da.ss — the Pecksnili ol New 
York— the Duval and luirglar of soc al life — the guller of aitizans —the black mailer of 
prostitutes — the comianio:? of liruiikards — tbe vio'ator of chastity— the blasphemer of 
Deity — that he would sell honor, conscience, heaven, father, mother, sister, and wives — 
that he would appal a highwayman, siagger a Thuj, and eclipse a Nero— in a word, I 
will prove him a demoralizer on |irinciple, unmatchable in turjiilude; the rascality of the 
Newgate Calendar mere childish play to him, and that the most allrocious rulEan or aban- 
doned prostitute would be dishonored by his acquiintance. 



NED'S BLACK MAIL. 

That none but the most verdant ever doubt of Ned's excessive black 
mailism, is pretty certain, and if any one is doubtful of the fact, come to 
me and I will assure them. As an apolo|:y for this shockingly immoral 
creature, it has been urged that he has some good qualities. Heaven help 
the brains of such apologists ! Nothing short of idiocy could make any 
one suppose that a being could exist among men without possessing some 
•park of decency, or approach to a good quality. I, who have been in his 
employ, and studied his character however, can honestly call the spirit of 
truth to be my witness, when I declare, that, in the whole course of my 
life, I never met an individual i a possession of so few traits of goodness. Hi» 
good qualities, on searching, will be found like the few grains of wheat 
among the two bushels of chaff, not worth the trouble. The best proof i>, 
that Nor o.NE living soul who ever had anything to do with him, 
PERSONALLY, but thoroughly hated him. While I was in his employ 
every boy dreaded and despised him : one boy particularly, invariably ex- 



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pressed the hope that his parents would remove him, because of the " oaths, 
lies, drunkenness, and meanness ofJVcrf." That boy I can produce any 
hour in proof. But why hunt for cases — his own wife hates him, and poor 
diseased, heart-broken girl, she has reason. His own motlier hated, hia 
own sister, all, all, who know him, hate him ; and this notice from a New 
York paper gives a correct picture of this phase of his character. 

FIRLNG IN THE DARK. 

■' The immortal " Ned" comes out in a mrsl lamcnlahle Jeremiad in his last wt-ek'8 
i.«sue, complaining of the treachery of fneiuls, and all Ihut mnons^hine Poor fellow ! 
He is always in hot water. He is mis^erably unfortunate in his associations. When- 
ever his real cliaracler becomes known and appreciated, he is sure to be desjiised and de- 
serted, ingratitude and ba-^eness are characteristics of the man." 

His black mail and bravery, are aptly, as truthfully, referred to by a Sun- 
day paper of this city, thus: — 

NED BUNTLINE -HIS COURAGE— BLACK MAIL, &c. 

" We have alrea^ly pretty well expo.^ed the intamous condtict and career of E Z. C. 
Judson, alias Ned Buntlinp, the publisher of a most disgraceful shee', called his "Own :" 
but we have a few more words to add, and having fiillilled our promi.-^e to thoioughly 
e.xpose this hypocrite — to let the public know the real character (f llie man, who, iiav- 
in^ n;iriowly escaped hanging at the Smith, for his cowardly and immoral practices, 
came here, wrth the avowed jnrrpose of making money, caring litlle hnw, or by what 
means the end was accomplished — having, we say, thoroughly e.\|iosed the fellow, we 
shall hand him over to the public, and if his ' Own' be published three months hence, it 
will be alike disg'aceful to them and to the public authorities. 

The motive and not the act should be considered, in awarding praise or condemnation 
— a man may be a|ipareiitly cbaiit.ible, and philanlhro|iic, but If it be discovered that the 
motive for such conduct be corru|)t, mercenary, and venal, the character of the act is al- 
logetlier changed — thus in Bunliine's crusade against gamblers, (not against gambling,) 
and immoral persons, if we were to judge by the attacks in his papi-r, not knowing the 
man, we should look upon him as a |iure, self .sacrilicing philanihropist, lighting valiant- 
ly in a good cause. But supposing it were discovered that hrs motive was a most base 
and disgraceful one, namely, to e.xtort money from the very men he abused— that he 
published a large edition, in order that by having it bought up by thfin, he might realize 
a large sum of money — bow would the public view hiin then ? Doubtless as a ruffian 
who deserved to be tarred ami feathereil. So with his [irelended warfare with immoral- 
ity. We will suppo.'e that a merchant, a marrii-d man and a fniher, named Baily per- 
haps, makes a bargain with a procuress to allure a girl from her home, to be sacrificed to 
his passions — she is seduced, and subsequently has him arrested under the law, in such 
cases made and provided. Now suppose that Ned Bunlline hears of the case, and pub- 
lishes ill his ne.\l issue an indignruit article, and giving Mr. Baily notice that full parti- 
culars will be related on the follo^ving week, but the following week passes, and the 
next and the ne\t, and still no further devflojiments are made, nor the case even alluded 
to; and supposing still further, that, in the meantime, a negotiation had been opeiied be- 
tween this Buiitline and Mr. Baily's lawyer to suppress the article, by beirg paid for the 
expense of setting it up, and ihe edition of his ' Own' already prinleii ; and ihat Buntline 
should make out a bill for over a hundred dollars, and receive a check for two hundred 
dollars from the aforesaid law\er, without being asked tor the change ! Supposing, we 
say, that all this had taken place, (we don't say that it has,) how would this frllow ap- 
pear in such a transaction, but as a hypocrite and a villain, who assumes the garb of 
morality the better to cloak his infamous designs! 

This Buntline is what may be vulgarly termed ' a bag of wind' — a cowardly blusterer, 
biave, very brave with his pen, but a more craven hearted wretch never dl.sgraced man- 
hood. He very rarely ventures to walk in the public streets for fear of a cowhide — he 
never does so alone, but is always protected by one, and frequently by two females. 
When he is deprived of their protection, he tides in a close hack carnage, which he hires 
to convey him about. He carries, or says that he does, about his person, pistols and 
bowie knives, but be has never been known to use a weapon except when he bbot poor 



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PotterfieM, after boasting of having seduced his wife, and then the woiind was in the 
back of the neck ! The windows of the room in which he writes and sleeps, at 16 
Abingdon place, the house of his father-in-law, Mr. Bennett, are boarded np lor fear of 
midnight assassins— on tlie table at which he sits are several weapons, and close to his 
elbow is a closet filled with pistols, guns, bowie knives, cutlasses, &c. — a sort of minia- 
ture armory, but so far as Buntline is concerned, ihese weapons are perfectly harmless — 
indeed, if all be true that we heat, he ha= a horror of such things, and it was his repug- 
nance to fighting that led to his leaving the United States Navy. An instance of his re- 
pugnance to lighting was furnished some two or three months since. It seems he had 
stated, that a certain character in the ' Mysteries and Miseries of New York' was intend- 
ed for a gentleman who haj formerly been an associate of bis, but when he discovered 
his infamous character, cut him. One morning Buntline went into Graves' Bowling 
Saloon, in Vesey Street, when this gentlemen, with several friends, and a large company, 
were present. He immediately accosted Buntline, saying: — 

" 1 believe you are the author and hero of the Mysteries and Miseries of New York?" 

" The author, not the hero," was the reply. 

" Then, sir, you will permit me to tell you my opinion of you," said the other ; and, 
addressing the company present, he said, " Gentlemen, I wish you all to hear what I have 
to say to this fellow," and the crowd immediately gathered round them. He then appli- 
ed to him the most insulting epithets in the language, taunted him with his villainy and 
cowardice, and closed by saying : " Now, sir, you say you go armed, give me one of 
your pistols, and we'll settle the business at onre." 

" Oh ! no," said Buntline, backing towards the door, " I can't fight, for I belong to my 
wife now ;/ and I will never expose my life e.xcept when defending the stars and stripes 
of my country !" He then opened the door, and hurried up the steps, amidst the jeers 
and laughter of the whole company. 

So much for the chivalrous spirit of Mr. Neddy Buntline, alias E Z, C. JudSon. 

We have plenty more anecdotes of the same sort left, but this will do for the present; 
we have a rod in pickle for him, which we shall apply, as he deserves it. We have 
published sufficieni to prove him a cowardly, mercenary, hypocritical, corrupt wretch — a 
seducer, homicide, slanderer, brothel visitor, and the perpetrator of more immoralities than 
we could recount in a twelvemonth." 



NED BUNTLINE AND THE SUN. 

Ned's Bawdy House Directory, about twelve months ago, was severe upon the 8rin for 
publishing au advertisement of jMadame ReetelFs, trusting; by thus ihrowing sand ia the 
people's eyes, they would not dream of his own roguery. Hear him. 

" For (ear that some one may think that my attacks upou the Sun and its publishers origi- 
nated in personal motives, I may as well tell ibem the I'easnn, if my readers have not al- 
ready learned it. It originates eniirfly in a desire and determination to put a stop to Reatell 
and C'ostello advertisements in ibat paper; lo force its publisher to refuse to prostitute his 
columns to every keeper of a bouse of ill fame who wants a "gentlemen of resources" to 
hr'ii^^ boarders. Sic; or for every libertine who wants a mistress lo advertise in; to fore© 
him, in short to mafee his advertising columns fit for a young girl to read, without sin and 
temptation being thrown in her way. 

"I have taken the aland I have, because I know I am ri^ht; and though Mr. Beach has 
capital, 1 h^\e justice on ray side ; and, fair play or not. t am not at all doubtful of ibe issue. 
If Moses Y. Beach will purify bis advertising columns, and kick out the Costello and Wei^el- 
holfgang, I'll let him alone. 11 ho does not, I advise every person who regards the moral* 
of society as worth caring for, to discontinue his paper. And when Mr Beach tries to 
defame my character by foul lies. I will return his attack with such truths as court records, 
positive affidavits, and well-attesied/ac?» will bear me out in. 1 am ready for any trial of 
character which the trta//iy gentleman can buy <ir bring up. Mr. li., afrer his cowardly 
hints, has preserved a dignified silence np to the time of ibis paper going to press — which, 
in consequence ofits large editiou, occurs on Wednesday, the 4th of October; so that it is 
to be feared he has backfd out. after all his threats. But if not, I am ready fur any attick, 
and each week in my paper will be glnd to meet it." 

Hear also the Sunday Courier upon Ned. 

NKD BUNTLINE AND HIS MORAL CRUSADE. 

" We presume that Mr. McKeon, the District Attorney, has seen a disgi-nceful shest pub- 



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liahed in the city, called ' Ned Buntline's Own.' and ho must be awaro, that he is grosglT 
neglecting liis duty, in failing to hriug it before iho notice of (lie (irand Jury ; it is immoral, 
iiidecem and profane — it is the very worst kind of Hush paper, and pandoi s to a degraded 
and vitiated taste. 

The editor assumes a gard of morality — 'ho wears the livery of heaven to serve the devil 
in ;' aud while pretending to attack sin in every shape, is actually ministering to it. Hii 
barefaced (hair faced would be more proper,) assurance, and cowardly bluster, may deceive 
gome persons as to his real <-bariicIer.; but the fact of his always carrying oftensive weapons 
^rarely or never trusting himself in public without a feinalo, and generally two. proves him 
to be as 'acking of physical us he is known to be of moral courage. And yet this man attacks 
our private citizens — etnploys spies to watch their movements, and fills his filthy sheet 
with profanity and obscenity . ami, to disgrace of the authorities, is permitted to publish it! 

" Aud by what right tines this fellow set himself up as a fcensor of other people's nioralsf 
Is he a pattern of morality hinifelf? If we refer to the files of the Nashville papers, we 
shall there find the record of a transaction, in whicii this Mr. Buntline did not evince much 
reverence for the Seventh Commandment, and his halting gait is the result of injuries re- 
ceived while escaping from the vengeance of tho injured husband. It would bo better for 
this person, l)efore attempting to improve the morals of the community at the North, to 
obtain certificates from the South, as to his tjualifications for the task." 

Another Sunday paper thus remarks upon Ned's imblushing hypocrisy : 

THE HEIGHT OF IMPUDENCE. 

" Judson, alias Buntline, the publisher of a- flash paper of the very worst description, has 
actually complained of Mr. Beach, of the Sun, praying that he may be "arrested and dealt 
with as law and the public good requires," fur publishing an immoral paper, "conducing to 
the destruction of social virtue, and the true welfare of the great coinnnmity !" This is 
about the most barefaced piece of impudence we everlieard of, and if Beach does not pro- 
cure the indictment of this Buntline, as a public nuisance, he deserves all that the luw can 
iuQict." 

Still another comment we clip from a contemporary. 

TOO GOOD NEWS TO BE TRUE. 

" It is rumored that Ned Buntline's disgraceful sheet will probably be presented by the 
next Grand Jury of the Court of Sessions, as an indecent and immoral publication. We fear, 
however, that it is too good news to be trae." 

Reader, while Ned was whining a pretension to purity for a sinister design — while ho 
was canlini; about the Sun Adverlinemenls, he, with a soul seared with damning blackness, 
actually had just perpetrated a seduction of a young girl called Dora Janes, which seduc- 
tion this vile lecher enacted in a house of ill fame kept by Kanny White, in Green street. 
Was ever such astoimding niscaliiy so successful before — was ever such scandalous 
prostitutions, such blick cornipiiuu, such beastly fiendishness, carried on so systematic, so 
nefarious, and carried on. too, by a wretch in the name of. aud for the advantage of purity — 
and yet mankind not rise en masse and annihilate the monster ! Perhaps there is not aucli 
anotlir-r unrivalled case of infamy in the history of human nature. How shall we account 
for the fact, that this man's filthy lusts have escaped notice? Tli*- key is to be found in 
that tang frnid and artifice he possesses, of giving a fair name to foul actions , attacking 
every body's little peccadilloes, so that they cannot see his own villainies, while he tries to 
bully those who do see through him. An Editor lately put the following query. 

WHO PAYS HER BOARD. 

Can any one inform us what red mustachoed libertine keeps a mistress at Fanny White's, 
and pays for her board and private arrangements for himself, the sum of $10 per weekt 
The girl's name is Miss I). J., and report says her paramour is a certain moral reform editor. 
I will give $10 to be put in possession of all the particulars in ihi.s matter." 

You are partly right Mr. Scorpion, and partly wrong Ned does keep the victim of his 
seduction at Fanny White's but is mean enough to deduct pretty considerably from the $10 
per week he agreed to give after her seduction. As hi.i [laper is going down like a stick ; 
as his wife has cut him oft'; as he has several women in pay : as ho miist frequent brothels 
and drunkerics, these places l)eing not so much luxuries with him as actual necessaries, 
how is he to pay the expenses ? 



THE DAUGHTERS OF TEMPERANCE AND NED. 

Oh, Ned, you've been lashing. 

In March of this prosent year, Ned agreed to give an address to tho " United Daughters 
of America" which of all the comic farces it has ever been my lotto witness, the address 
was the climax. During the day Nkd liad been drinking in Pahno's, Madam Pastor's, and 
Florence's dninkeries, and fiirgot all about his '-Address" to be delivered that evening, 
although he had it written out and in his breeches pocket. It required all my utmost solic- 
itation and coaxing to ronse higj to the fact, ai;d it was only by swallowing repeated glasses 
Boda water, and bathings of the head, in Pahno's saloon, that we got him in anylhiug like 
trim to meet the " Daughters.' The following report of that address from a New York 
contemporary, who unaware of his being hall-drunk at its delivery, will give the reader a 
tolerable notion of the event. 

TATTLE ABOUT TOWiN. 

" Having accidently observed a notice in one of the morning papers, last week, that tho 
' United Daughters of America' were to hold their Anniversary at the CoUiseum. and that the 
' Celebrated Ned Bunlline' was booked for an Address on that most important occasion, I at 
once made up my mind to be present and hear this verital)le hero — this mighty man (' over 
the left') fire his pop-gun into this newly-hatched nest of Exclusive Yankee Women. 

Without prefacing the matter further, I made my way direcdy to the place designated, at 
the precise time appniuted for this exhibition of iuiliflerent praying and good comic ringing, 
paid my quarter at the door for a tucket, was very politely shown to a very eligible seat by a 
very polite, respectHble looking gentleman, weaiiiig the regalia of sotne order. 

"Alter wailing half an hour, the ladies of this secret order of a year's grovvth, arrayed in 
their regalia, were conducted in and seated near the stand occupied by the speakers. As to 
their general appearance, I could not speak in very flatlerin;.' terms. Ned can do this, for 
he is lamous for flattering kimseJf and all vomcn, whether pretty or otherwise. 

" This ' celebrated ' trumpeter — having blown his own so long he has got to Ije perfect 
master of this instrument — made his appearance early in the evening, his outside decked 
with the gaudy trappin;;s of some order or societv, of- which he no iloubt professes to be a 
virtuous member, and his inside lined with something else which if seen would not appear 
so sightly. ' ' 

'•Now, undoubtedly, many of the readers of the ' Scorpion 'never saw this ' intellectual 
giant,' and a short description of his person may not be inappropriate. Ho is sliort, thick 
set round shouldered, hump backed, duck-legged, large copper, (inclining strongly to brass) 
colored hice, covered with filthy looking, faded, carroty colored hair, his head diawn down 
between his shoulders, looking as though it was striving t" hide itself from public gaze, and 
his heavy shoulders desperately resisting the effort, rendering it uncertain which would get 
the better in the struggle. His small e)es were sunk so deep in his head that it puzzled ray 
eyesight, only a few leet off, to tell whe'her they were open or shut, and his countenance 
altogether as expressionless as one can well imagine. His w hole appearance closely resem- 
bled a sneaking cur. ar>d if he is not one, nature made a sad mistake in making him up. 

" He 10"k his place on the stand at the summons of the m:isler of ceremonies, and was 
introduced lo the audience. His thrilling address was written out in full, and he never once 
took his eyes off it. He commenced in a flat insipid, husky tone, saying that tho talented 
gentleman who had preceded him had lelt him Hide to say. He was right there, and if he 
had left him nothing lo say, his reputation would have suffered less. But he said he would 
address himself for a few momeuls.to the ladies of the order. Mr. Buutltne is a great ladies' ^ 
man, and he always endeavors to make up by flattery — always the most valuable pttint with j 
females — what he lacks in personal attractions. He faid lie should, in addres.sing them, di- | 
vide them into the following classes, viz : .Mo'hers — Wives — ti\eiers, znii Sweethearts. He I 
was happy to find the daughters of America occupying the high petition lUey do in the so- 
cial scale, and he was proud to say that they were fully equal and often superior to the lords 
of creation. Of course Ned meant that they often wear the breeches. Is'ed said ihe native 
born ladies of America had got above plowing the soil and hoeing corn, and had turned this 
nnladylike employment over to the ignorant, half-ctvilized Dutch women. They are only fit 
to do this dirty-work. Here was a thrust at the hardy, virtuous, industrious, foreign popula- 
tion of this country, that they would do well lo remember, and if I mistake not, many of 
the ladies he was adchessing. if not " Dutch," they were immediately descended from that 
noble, hard-working race, always gaining their own living by honest industry, either in tho 
field or attending to household duties. Ned made a mist;ilte when he said this, though he is 
particularly hitler against everything not American, especially what belongs to the humaa 
iamily. 



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" I shall pass over his advice to molhers, how they should teach their children — and wivoi' 
how they tliould flmter, fniidlo and indulge their renegade hnsbanda —an 
should reclaim tlieir predigite brothecs — and notiga liis advice to Sweelh. 

" I think" says Ned, " I cannot he mislaken when I say that some of yo 

" Here some the young girls littered, and some whose faces bore strong marks of having 
passed, to them, a very importftt period in life, without having buckled themselves on to a 
" sweetheart," drew on a sickly smile which seemed to say they had nearly given up the 
ship. Some of the old ladies looked pleased, most likely because they had passed over 
the perpleaing trial when they were sweeethearts, and some looked aorry, from the same 
cause. 

" There have always been sweethearts," continued he, " for had there not been there 
would have been no wives." 

" I had a sweetheart" says Ned, " in my schoolboy days, and I loved her loo — well I 
did. She had great influence over ine — so she had. There was nothing but I would do for 
ber — well there wan't. She detested tobacco, and so for her I abstained from the use of it, 
and have never learned to use the filthy weed. For her I did not drink, for she would never 
let any one kiss her whose breath smelt of rum." 

" Frobably but for this irrcsistable propensity for kissing with Neddy, and his sweet- 
heart's strict temperance principles, Ned would have been a sot. 

" For her I abstained from robbing bird's nests and hen-roosts, and tho neighbor's orchards 
and gardens." A virtual admission that he had a strong incliuation 'o steal. So here the in- 
fluence of his first love ]>robably saved him froiu a snug licrih fur life iu some peuiteutiary. 
" She took a great fancy for tho sea, and was charmed with a ' life ou the ocean wave,' so 
for her I became a sailor." 

" This accounts for tho ' New Yacht' being built, and his making ' Mrs. Ned' first mate. 

•' Master Edward continued, ' I advise all these young ladies to beware of any man who 
uses rum or tobacco, and do as my sweetheart did, never let any one kiss you whoso breath 
smells of either, but keep them from you as you would a viper.' 

" Very good, Ned, but you did not tell them to keep aloof from married or single men 
whose characters smell of half tlie filthy dens of polution in the city. No you didn't. 

" You did uol tell your listening audience, that when you were doing the bidjing of your 
young sweetheart, if she allowed you to kiss tho hand of a naughty old woman and ask her 
forgiveness for saying naughty things about her. Well you didn't. 

" You did not say if she taught you to be a bad boy and practice what you dare not 
preach or whether you learned that afterward by mixing in bad company. Oh, no you 
didn't. 

" Now, afler alL, we must come to the conclusion that ' Master Edward Buntline' is a 
'smart fellow.' to use a Y'ankee phrase. He is * bound to shine,* and has cut away tho un- 
derbrush iu the road to fame and fortune. 

" The people reluso to swallow anything less than a large humbdg, and consequently can- 
not take anything less ou to their foul stomachs, than some great ' Prize Fight,' the ' Califor- 
nia Humbug,' or ' Ned Buntline., Where's Barnum?' " 

Reader, think you Ned would not be more appropriately placed as a patron of prostitutes, 
than adflressing honest men's wives and daughters ? Daily at this period was 1 met by a 
poor seduced girl who never gave other name than Mrs. Judson, to the repeated inquiries 
to who she was, who demanded the price of her board for two months, Mr. Judson having 
failed payment fur that period ! She used to call frequently at 3091 Broadway for her board- 
money, and " Daughters of America, " how think you your champion, your trafficker in 
woman's flesh actually proposed to MB to get rid of her, and the price of her person ? He 
ofTered me a bonus if I would commit her to prison for annoying mo in the shop, i to pretend 
that tile shop was my own for that purpose 1 1 ! My reply to this heartless, shameless pro- 
posal, was^ that of every man who has an honorable feeling; I spurned and rejected it. Lit- 
tle intimacy ever tran.spired between us since that hour. There, Daughters, there is a fair 
specimen of your Brother, who is " firm in the right cause," to an erring sister ; erred too 
through your Advocate, and spurned by him in her degradation to make room for other vic- 
tims. 1 cut the following from a weekly paper of the date Ned addressed the " Daughters 
of America." 

" The charmiug Mary Ellen ! called upon us last week in regard to the communication of 
' Traveler.' She says it is all false, except that ' Ned ' does call and purchase oranges and 
oysters; but if his coming to her house is to bo the cause of Iter being published, she sliall 
eject him from the premises. So, my beauty, beware, or Mary Ellen will be down upon 
yen." 

Yes, Ned was running about assignation shops while benoodling " the Daughters of Tem- 
perance," kept several paramours, while his poor wifo was on tho eve of her confinement, 
and was preaching morality and temperance with a sweeping determination at the same mo- 
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NED ON GAMBLING. 

ANTI-GAMBLING LAW. 

" Thank God — there is no longer a doubt that oar legislating will pass an act which will 
aid in stopping the work of destruction which for year» has been carried on in this ciiy imd 
state, blasting and ruining forever hundreds of families — making thieves of young clerks. cau- 
eing ruined fathers and husbands to commit suicide — or to tly far from the scenesol their ruia 
or disgrace. I here give a copy of the i.Avv as reported by Judge Fine, and hope to report 
its final passage and adoption in my next. And when it is through — gamblers look' out! — 
I'll ba down on you like a thunderbolj. The officers shall do their duty, and political influ- 
ence shall no longer shield you ! (Jo to California — leave the digging or turn honest ! " 

The above is from Ned's Own or " Bawdy-House Directory," ol March, and do the public 
wonder that nothing ever happened with that law, which Ned was to bring about the ears of 
the gamblers as a thunderbolt? Read the following from various papers of that period; — 

THE " REFORMED" AT FARO. 

" A correspondent informs us that he saw an editor of a certain ' Reform' Paper in this city 
playing at Faro on the afternoon of Wednesday, .^pril 4lh, at No. 3 Park Row, and that the 
party had $100 in the bank. He further states that if required, he will verify the statement 
he makes on oath. 

" We shall next week publish the affidavit, and with a full description of what took place 
there that afternoon, which will cause a hard shaking among the dry bones." 

M.irk reader, that his article headed Anti-Gambling Law is dated March, yet he was play- 
ing at Faro for .$100 on the 4th of April, at 3 Park Row ! Any reader can see a copy of the 
affidavit referred to above, by calling on Judge Mountfoft, Jeflerson Market Station House, 
before whom it was taken, or upon Hiram Force, No. 4, Stuy vesant street. New York, who 
lost $-20 in wager, that it was a story upon the innocent " Dear Ned." The whole tale is not 
yet told. John Bardolph was Ned's partner on the " spree" that day, and in the midst of a 
game, Mr. Suydam, whom Ned had repeatedly exposed for gambling came in and caught him, 
A scene ensued. Mr. Suydam threatened to kick him, not only for his hypocrisy, but for hia 
cowardice ; Ned slunk off, and pocketed the ignominy. Two notices to correspondents I 
extract from the papers with which to wind up this chapter. 

Selma. " We heard from other sources that emaculata Ned was passing the evening of 
Thursday last in fine glee at Jack's No. 3, drinking champagne and feasting on the fat of 
the laud, in company with Frank Steward and several oiliers like him. So we ride." 

MORE OF PINKEY WHISKERS. 

" We are informed that a gentleman who has been most shamefully abused by Ned in his 
paper, seeing that individual enter the house No. 3 Park Row. on Wednesday, follows him 
thither, addressing him, called him a "liar, a puppy, a coward, and a scoundrel," all of which 
the editor swallowed, and ihcn made a most humiliating apology before sixty or seventy of 
hii friends. Truly, he is a ijat'e man ! " 



MARY FOWLER>ND NED. 

" SA(? wont pay me black-mail.^^ 
• THE CASE OF MARY FOWLER. 

" After three days' trial, this case, which is as plain a ca.se of a disorderly house 
as ever was complained of, has been passed over, by the disagreement of the Jury, for 
another Iriai. Upon that jury was a noted policy-dealer— one Mc'Iiilyre, and pei'haps 
some more of his stamp. Sut they were honest men ; and I do not believe that a jury of 
twelve men of any stamp in the city of New York could be found, who, upon such evi- 
dence, would have acquilted her. The house was proved to be the continual resoii and 
dwelling-place of notorious characters. One of the best reporls ibat 1 have seen of this 
case, IS in the columns of the last Sunday Mercury, and I take the liberty of borrowine 
that portion which alludes to the charge of Judge Daly: 

" V/e stepped out during the summing up, aud returned in time to hear the Ion" and lumi- 
nous charge to the jury by his honor Judge Daly. We thought it might have been l>riefer. 
lUera had on.y oue pomtbeen charged, aud ouly one tried, that we could eee: did the ac- 



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cased keep a disorderly boase T What n disorderly liouso. iis meant in tho statute, is, cer- 
tainly, llHJiij.'ht we, level to every ordinary capncity. aud llie jury could not ho doiained very 
long by the magistrate, or in the jury room. As it was, we do not wotider thnt thoy wero 
bothered, and come to no conclusion. The Juilge showed his erudition and L-lu(]ueuce in a 
long e-toidium, by ditcussiug the question of eijiedieticy in relation to proceedings like tho 
present; and suggested the not novel, but I'rotn the bench a somewhat unusual opinion, that 
bouses of ill-fame, in a city like this, were to be looked upon as necessary evils, and that all 
attempts to check them had heretofore failed. He illustrated Ids opinion on this point by ci- 
ting the story ot the Hydra, whose heads sprung up again as last as Hercules could cut them 
off. But it was certainly the duly of the jury, lie added and enforced, to "speak out' to ' do 
their duty,' in this case, if they ihonglit the accused was g ilty ; for as there was a statute 
against the existence of immoral institutions and their vices, i hey must not be continued. He 
repeated, however, that all such prohibitions were, in their piactical operation, null and void, 
lu another part of this singular charge, the judge told the jury that it was iheir duty to 
'brave public opinion,' rather than lo allow themselves to sacrifice the prisoner.to propitiate it; 
and in ihis connection his honor intimated that the Press may have had some agency in crea- 
ting a ' public opinion,' in relation to the case at the bar. It is very odd, but judges and law- 
yerhin criminal trials, seem to be always under the most ludicrous apprehension of that ter- 
rible ogre. The Press. 

"But we will go no further in our analysis of the needlessly elaborate address of the judge 
to the jury, in the very plain matter of ' Tho People !;s. Mary Fowler.' We can only re- 
peat our opinion that had it bgcn briefer and mure directly to the purpose, the jury need 
not have remained iu their retirement for so many hours, even if they would have found it 
necessary to leave tlie box. As it was, they disagreed upon the question of Mary Fowler'i 
guilt, aud were discharged" 

It really seems very islrange to me, that Judge Daly should have take so much trouble 
to Bludy out all the points of law, and all the improbabililies of utility in hieaking up 
these " neces.*ary evils"— I can hanily see into his REiSONS. Were he a bachelor, I 
might SUPPOSE a reason, but as it is, I am utterly at a loss to know why hisHonor leaned 
80 mekcifully upon the " weaker side," — Ned's Own 

The above from "Ned's, Bavfdy-House Diiectory,'V/irf lead people to im- 
agine that this Mary Fowler was something worse than the majority of fe- 
males situated like herself. Nothing of the kind, good easy, simple reader. 
Mary Fowler is in reality a woman the public could never have have heard 
of; her house was not even known to the neighbors around, as anything re- 
markable ; yet '-Ned'' selected her as a Holycaust to Lis reputation with the 
public. Whyl Because after writing letter after le'ier, using threat after 
threat, she refused to pay him black-mail ! Should aiy one doubt it, Marv 
Fowler will snow the letters. Should anybody ill be sceptical, let 
them visit the houses of ill fame, and they will find ti t during the last two 
years, out of every dozen such places, from eight at lejst Ned has eithei 
obtained personal or pecuniary favors as homage to his power and his paper 
Who has not heard of the notorious Fanny Ettling the courtezan ? AVell, 
in March, Ned threatened to serve her a la Mary Fowler, but she, more easi- 
ly frightened, came to N. Y., took Ked about the city in a carriage — nay, 
the monster actually took her inside of his father-in-law's roof, next room to 
his own wife, then large in the family way, and was therein closeted ui»dec 
the pretence uf "PRIVATE BUSINESS." Reader, don't smile at Ned having 
private business with a prostitute. Next morning Ned called upon rne to 
insert Fanny Ettling's name on his Free List. 

Is there not something melancholly ludicrous in a man like Ned persecuting 
a woman for obtaining her living as a prostitute, when this very creature «/ept 
with a prostitute at 74 Greene street, the day before his marriage with a young 
innocent girl ! Does it not create unmitigated disgust to hear this formal- 
hocus simpering about impurity, who has several girls boarded in these assig« 
nation shops, while others he has left to perish with hunger"! Is it not a 
ghastly view of human nature to see this plague-spot dealing in rose-colored 
phrases bi fore the "Daughters of America," whose own young wife is pol- 
luted by him with a disease more loathsome than death itself 1. To stay this 
desolating wretch — to lay bare the sunken hypocrisies upon which many 



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trusting creatures have been wrecked is the object of the pamphlet, and I 
will obtain the sympathies of the right-minded in so glorious a work of 
humanity. 

NED AND DR. WEISSELHOFF. 

AlVg Fish thai comes io Net. 

We clip the following notices from Ned's Own, ami I beg the public to recollect I state 
nothiug but what I know, having been sub-ediliug his paper at that period. 

" We scarcely know how to commence, or what to say, to express our gratitude as be- 
comes us, for the favor shown us by the Kditor of Ned Buntline's Own. We therefore de- 
sire him to accept our thauks from theirjpurest fountain, and if we can do anything in his be- 
half, we shall be happy to comply with »ny reasonable request he may see iit to impose 
upon us." — Camden Gazelle. 

" One favor, dear sir, you can grant. Yon have read the advertisement of a New York 
abortionist in your columns : now please take it out. It is signed by one Weisselhoff, a vil- 
lain who goes under a false name. If the papers will not advertise for these wretches, their 
trade must cease. As to the other ofler, look in my list of local agents. In the following 
article from the Southern Sentinel, published at Plaquemine, La, you will see how this 
Weisselhoff is spoken of: — 

'• EXPOSK HIM, NED." 
" We received by the last mail from the North, au infamous advertisement, which has been 
sent us for the thirdtime, enclosed in a New York Sun. The first one crept into our publi- 
cation through an oversight. This advertisement is signed by a Dr. Weisselhoff, (or some 
such name, for having turn up the precious document, we disremember it, ) and ofiers for 
sale a certain book, 7tot to be fvnnd, in the book-stores which treats of nothing else, we are 
convinced, but tlie practice of the detestable Madame Restell. We recommend this M. D. 
to the particular care of our friend Ned Buntline and authorize him to collect $10, which 
we charge the Doctor for one insertion of his means of living, and request that the sum bo 
appropriated for the benefit of the poor sewijg girls of New I'ork." 

" The Doctor is requested to call at the ' Captain's Office and fork over that X. If he does 
not, I'll try another way of collecting it. It belongs to the ' Sewing girls, ' and they shall 
have it, or the Doctor shall have the worth of it in trouble ! 

" It is aUo my duty to inform the editor of the Sentinel, that the Sun has ceased to adver- 
tise lor the wretch." 

" Ned buntline's Own comes to us richer and richer, better and better each week, Nedia 
engaged in a go; ■:! cause, and we believe he is reaping his reward in a good subscription list, 
«ud the knowledge that he is doing his duty." — Bingkamton Courier. 

" I would thank the e'.Utor of the Courier for the above kind notice, if were not that one 
column of the same p;i;)cr is filled with the advertisements of Weisselhoff, the obortionistl 
Please do me a favor, !-:r, iiud clear him out; he is a wretch who lives by child-murder! 
Don't aid him in his hor. i'.ilo trade — do not assist him to disseminate his infamous works." 
—Ned's Own. 

Everybody is invited to guess who Dr Weisselhoff is. Ned, you see, says he is a child 
murdeber! Header do you give it up ? You may as well, you never cohld guess it. Well, 
then, Houghton, alias Weisselhoff, alias Dr. Alvear, was ( at the very moment Ned was in- 
serting these notices of him ) in Ned'a employ ! Don't start, reader it's a fact. This " child 
burdeker" was Ned's principal contributor to his "Own" all the time he was black- 
guarding the Sun for its advcrtisemeuts of Him — all the time he was hunting Mary Kowler 
— and when he was spouting of purity to the Daughters of America ! ! Perhaps the reader 
may recollect Ned arresting this same Dr. Weisselhoff soma months ago. It took place in 
this wise: the Dr. wrote all Ned's theatricals at so much per week, Ned understood the 
Dr. made large suras by abortion — he desired to go shares, the Dr. refuses. Ned attacks 
him in the paper as an Abortionist, then arrests him — the Dr. goes to Ned in distress; Ned 
affects sympathy, gets his price, and from that day to this all is mum, except a half-retraction 
from Ned, and the affair is dropped. 

Perhaps some crazy Daughter of Temperance, or benoodled O. U. A., may intermix his 
just indignation with some doubt of the exact truthfulness of the picture here drawn of this 
Moral Swiddler. His confidence may be assured notwithstanding; and I should like to see 
Ned setting about a disproof. These most atrocious deeds were really and trully commit- 
ted by the Generalisimo of the American Phalanx, which, under his guidence, is bound to 
root out all evil from the moral world. By the way, Ned pocketed the X belonging to the 
poor sewing girls ! 



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NED COWHIDED IN BROADWAY. 

The nighlti) bird roused from hit dusky lair, 

'■ XEP IlfSIl.lXK COWHIDKD IM BROARWAY BY A PR03T1TUTK I — KATE HASTINGS, THE FE- 
MALE I.ION ! ■' 

"Oil Werliiesday last, about oae o'clock. Uroadvvay, at ;\io coiner of Dunne .street, prn- 
spnterl a most exciting and e.xtraordinary pictiire. At that hour, Mr. X. Y. 7. C. A. S. S. 
.JiiHsoii, nlitts Sed Bnntlini. was walkiiij down Broadway, accompanied by Mike WaUh and 
frii'ud. As the piiriy reached the corner ot" Duatie street, a fashionably dressed female was 
ol)r<erved to le;ip from tli,.* carriage and rnsh impetnoualy toward.s the unsuspecting victim 
ol her e.xciteil vengeance — Bnutline — whom she confronted, demanding to know, why he 
had pMbli»lied her in liis paper .' '' 

•'.lust at this moment we happened along, and discovered the heroine of the crowd to be 
the immortal ' Ka'c Hastings ' of Leonard street. The following scene occurred, to the 
«;reat aniiKemei.t of the hundreds of sp.-ctators wiio had already gathered about the corner. 
Kate walked up to him hastily, and seizing him by the coit collar, drew him around, a.ad 
facing him. addressed him thus.* 

•' • You dirty, mean, sneaking, paltry sua of a b h, how dare you publish me ia yoar 

paper ? ' 

" ■ .Madam — I swear — I swear — Madam — ' tetrifiedly stammered IS'od. 

" ' You lie! you cowardly scoundrel — you li>' ! Yon vagabond, you contemptible pnppy 
— you think you are so low that nobody will condescend to punish you, do you ? You're mis- 
taken, you unmitijated c:>lumu'itor ami ba->u scoundrel I There's one that will condescend 
to notice you. and that's me I I'll learn you to publish my name in your paper, you dirty, 
i->i3an, good-foriioiliing, pitifulblackg.uMid ! ' 

•• .\iid in thus giving vent to her e.tciled feelings, the lion-hearted Kate drew out a good 
strou* cowhide, which she had bought for the pui^iose, and with all the skill of a practised 
hand, she dealt her blows upon the head and ^holllJel■s of her cowardly foe, until he was 
obliged to run to escape further tlagellation. It was alleged by some of the bystanders who 
witnessed the affair, that dtiring the vmlee Ned put his hand into his pocket and drew out 
a pistol to defend Ititisclf! 

•' After witnessing this highly interesting affair, the crowd sent up a boisteroos shout 
of approbation, and went off about their bu5ine.ss. The well whipped Ned hurried off, 
under the protection of his friends, and the Lion Queen of Leonard street, ordering her car- 
riage away, wtilked up Broadw.ay, trailing her cowhide which had done such faithful ser- 
vice, and looking as 'calm a.s a summer's morning.'" — Herald. 

" r. S. We learn since the above was in type, that I'inkey has caused a warrant to bo 
issued for her arrest, and also lodged a complaint against her for keeping a disorderly 
house. Truly this is wreaking a sweet revenge, ami fully worthy of such a thing as 
glories in all the letters of the alphabet for his initials." 

Kate, as all know, went into Court, produced filthy letters sent to her 
by Ned, and came ofT triumphant ! Ned mistook his power over this lady, 
and as she declared, would neither be bullied nor black-mailed by any li- 
centious upstart like him. Nav, she threatened to expose his rrav.^TE ch.ir- 
ACTER. and Ned trembled, as well he might. Kate can a tale unfold of his 
villany as wotild make his admirers hang their heads for vtry shame. 

V\'e have always foretold Ned's future career. Any one who traces cause 
and EFFECT must see that exposure is hound to come. The sleepy eye-lids 
of the public mav be slow ot opening, but they do open some time. Ned 
has be'-n hunted "out of Florida, kicked out of Pittsburgh, drummed out of 
Nashville, disgraced in Philadelphia, and why should it maudlingly be' im- 
agined he c;in be suffered to remain in New York 1 We cannot think the 
New York community so sunk in apathy, so lost to self-esteem, as to nurture 
this pet savage in its midst, when every place else ha^ transported him. We 
cannot believe this knave who tramples upon all that is holy, who ruthlessly 
desecrates the virgin temple and the happy home, who in the midst of civ- 
ilization lives a social Arab, a New Y'ork Bedouin, is o be tolerated here. 

Ned, fearful of an expose, in a drunken mood visited Kate's establishment, 
spent sorne dollars in drink, wanted to kiss Kate, but she refused. I clip 
the foUowins hint on the subject : 



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"I wish to be informed whelher the lady 'Gerirudt' has received the $5 due her by the 
immaculate Ned. I have learned that he has paid her oke dollar on account, on Sat- 
urday night, two weeks since. If this be the fact, I am glad that there is yet some hope 
of the improvement of the manners and morals of the 'Reformer.' He hadbttler pay the 
balance than waste his money in buying champagne. How much did the wine cost at 
No. 55, and at Kale's ? Rei)ort says that Ned and the courtezan that cowhided him have 
kissed and become friends. Good, if so. There is nothing like being well suppyed with 
the milk of human kindness, Ned, however, has sucked many a heifer, which fact may 
account for the 'milk in the cocoa nut.' " — Scokpion. 



NED AND THE HERALD. 

The Frog and ike Ox. 

A Frog, (Bays .Esop, in afable,) '}" ^'f;." replies the joutli "in vain, 

Sat near a laimei's pond and ilable, Wi'h all youi might you puff and slraui, 

And, as a pampered ox pass'd by, To look as b.g, Cljs aU a jest !) 

Beheld him w.lh an eUTious eye : tV^'V'^f lirobdignagian beasl. 

\\ hen he advances to the brink 
Of this smooth lake, about Id drink, 
"How proudly yonder bullock walks, jjo,^ ,^5 iijs si^ps j^^j treadings fly, 

Ando'er the yard majestic stalks! If touched by him, all sure to die I 

How all the herd besides he scorns. Then, if perchance his voice he raise. 

And tOMses round his head and liorns ! Pleased as himself he there surveys, 

Fool ! to forget in size that lie, Xhe »rumblln" accent stuns our ears, 

And strength inferior is to me. Like the dread music of the spheres. 

Vain as he is, like me, let him Trembles the stream in circling rounds, 

Or leap, or hop, or dive, or swim. ipd j.fi,o i,cErse ajiplause resounds." 

To me his bellowings are a joke. 
While 1 at will more loudly croak "J! Neddy, 10 thee this tale I tell : 

Thus to Mike old Froggy spe.nks. Read it, and mark the moral well ; 

And swells, Uke bladders, both hia cheeks : Learn hence, vain wretch, thyself to know ; 

Bennett be tlie^Ox, the Froggy thou. 

Ned is pretty consistent in one thing, but only one. His Pharasaical pujilanfsm. His 
deadliest .selfifhness he can wrap up in the warm blanket oi seeming sympathy lor virtue — 
he can also sugar his phiz, even when his heart is crammed with spleen — he can assume 
the beard of Hercules or frowning IMars, when he possesses only valor's excrement; in 
short, this vermin, like any other rat, knjws well when the cat's about. Under the disguise 
of public morals! !! Ned attacked Mr. Bennett of the "iieraki," who thought no more of 
him than the cur who snapped at his horse's heels. There was not more burlesque in 
duixotte's attack on the "windmills;" nor would there be more grinning were Tom' 
Thumb to offer to fight Barnuni's giant, than for the infinitesimally small "relonner" to 
aim at Bennett. Certain it was, "Ned" failed to make more impression on the Herald 
than a rat's tail would upon a man-of-war. Ned was "wrathy," so he, "like a dog, return- 
ed to his vomit," and attacked Mr. Bennett's sistei-in-law! Tes, "Daughters of America," 
your noble champion makes small account of holding your sex up to public scoin, when 
his revenge and natural meanness requires one of ye for a sacrifice. What said the worldi 
to this cowardly outrage — this assassin ol the sex 1 I give of a lew quotations from the 
Press : 

A CHANCE FOR HIS DESERTS. 

"Ned Buntline, the last and worst literary scourge that has visited our city since the days 
of Polyanthus Di.xon, has been arrested and held lo bail by Bennett ol the Herald, lor 
grossly and villainously lilielling the sister of Mrs. Bennett. Heretofore this literi\ry pes- 
tilence and desperado, has engrossed but little attention from anybody save the scum of the 
city, and very thick-headed devouiersot the horrid details of the scandjilous sheet Buniline 
publishes; he has been allowed to swagger around with his pockets full of revolvers, and 
his mouth full of bravado and sickeoing egotism, but now, he is very likely to be taken 
care of and will, undoubtedly, in the course of a few months see the internal airangement* 
of Blackwell's Island, a fate this fellow wsU deserves." — Aurora Borealis. 

NED BUNTLINE. 

" •' This miserable wretch is daily sinking lower and lower in the scale of human degrada- 
tion. He is already the loathed ol all respectable people, the horsewhipped by the most de- 
graded of the female sex, and the being whom the administrators of the law regard so 
lightly that they give encouragement to all aggrieved individuals to kick and beat him as 
they would a dog caught in the act of stealing sheep. This hound has, for some weeks 
past, been yelping at Bennett, of the New York Herald, with a view to compel him to exclude 



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certain advertisemenis from that paper, which yelping, however, has only been regarded 
as the barking of some flea-bedevilled cur. finding that his vomiting of filth only sick- 
ene.l himsell — in his madness, maliciously and shamefully assails the private reputaiion 
of Bennett's sister-in-law, a beautifol and accomplished young lady of this city, who has, 
however, held him 10 bail in the sum of S-000 to answer the outrageous libel. Such is 
Bunlline's honor and gallantry ! Such the! nieanncss of his nature ! Such the manner of 
his revenge! Finding his enemy invulnerable to all his shaits of insult and injury, he 
must needs turn upon a lovely female, who never did him the slightest harm, and with the 
J.eart of a devil, vilify and slander her character, defame her purity, and drag her in shame 
before the eyesof the world. Suppose she were among the viles/of her sex does that jus- 
tify Buntline in abusing her in the manner lie has done, because he happened to have a 
grudge against her brother-in-law ? What has a man's wife, brother, sister, or other rela- 
tives to do with a quarrel between two individuals able to battle in their own defence — rel- 
a.ives, too, wno know nothing about the matter in dispute — who do not iuterfeje in it in 
anyway whatever? Such assaults show a craven spirit and a hellish malignity, and a 
contempt for the proprieties of life, which merit and must receive the scorn of any right 
minded person in the cnmuiunity. Buntline now stands a fair chance of receiving his de- 
serts : by being sent to the penitentiary to cnt stone. Always beware of a man who resorts 
to an alias for he is sure to prove a villain." 

MISS CREAN AND HER FOUL LIBELLER. 

" A human vampire — a fiend of the most diabolical character and propensities — a spirit 
reeking with the foulest passions that were ever born in hell, sent forth on the earth tolulfil 
its mission of evil, could not approach in baseness and inhumanity the attack made by Ned 
Buntline, in his paper three weeks since, upon Miss Georgeana C. Crean. 

" The only crime of which this young lady is guilty, is that of being the sifter-in-law of 
James Gordon Bennett. 

It is well known that Buntline has been making all kinds of foolish attacks on Bennett 
and the Herald, for the past four or five months, with the vain hope of provoking the latter 
to notice him, that he might derive the consequent advantages of the notoriety which such 
a notice would give him. Utterly failing to do this, or to get Bennett to say one word about 
him in his paper, and having lasheJ himself into a most desperate condition, stung with 
madness, and mortified at his failure to provoke Bennett to a quarrel, he turns round and 
most magnanimously plunges a dagger into the heart of an innocent, unoffending, and un- ii 
protected female ! 

'What has Miss Crean to do with Bennett, or his paper, or his quarrels 1 In what way 
has bis young lady offended Buntline that she should be thus ruthlessly and barbarously 
assailed ? Has it come to this, that a foul-spirited wretch like Ned Buntline may with im- 
punity enter the sanctuaryof private life, lay his unhallowed handsuponan innocentyoung 
female, and drag her forth to be immolated upon the altar of his unhallowed revenge \ 

" Is there no protection for the young, the virtuous, and the innocent, against such a hu- 
man vampire ■? Who ever heard of so flagrant, so base, so mean, so cowardly, so despica- 
ble, so unmanly and so brutal an acf? TUe sneaking paltroon, loo, knows it, and fearing 
to meet the roused angerofa virtuons community, he attempts to justify or palliate his bru- 
tality by the paltry subterfuge o: his attempt to provoke a quarrel with Bennett I It was 
well fur you that Miss Crean was not ray sifter. Had she been, long ere this you would 
have b^e'n made to repent your meaaoess, you miserable wretch .' Out upon you !. Your 
name stinks in the nostrils of the community, and your deeds, like yourself, can lire only 
in your rottenness and corruption. 

" I am glad the Grand Jury have found a true bill against him for this foul and malicious 
libel, and trust that now he will receive his full reward in the Court of Sessions." 

THE PRESS vs NED BUNTLINE. 

" Since writing our remarks about the infamous lihcller of woman, in another column, 
\\t find the Pie.ss of New York, with scarcely one exception, is Ireatinir the wretch with 
the c3Stis;alio;i and scorn he has so richly merited. We give a few e.xtracts fo show the 
manner, and which Ned's hellish outrage [upon a defenceless girl is viewed in this com 
munily. 

•'The model now of obtaining vengeance against a contemporary press is to blackguard 
the editor's wife, mothtr, or sister. If you cannot find out anything against his wife, or 
mother, you may, by pursuing a proper system of filthy and degrading espionage, fiod out 
something against his wile's sister. It is true that she may be as innocent of having com- 
mitted any offence against you — the conductor of a villifying, scandalmongering sheet— as 
innocent as a cherub. No matter. She may be defenceless. No matter. She may be as 
pure as snow, and as chtiste as ice. No matter; it is easy to smotLer her, poor girl, with 
newipaper filth. 

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Sometliing of the kind has b;en done io the sister of the wiie of the editor of the Herald, 
ty a detestable and most coniemptible thing, which is j-uffered to disgrace ihe press of the 
Uiiiied S'a e;, and to degrade the character of its people. Has ibis young lady no brother, 
or male fiiirnd wah a particle of manhood in his breast '>.—Snnd,ji/ Mercunj. 

PnoSHCUTiO ^ FOR 1 IREL. 

• " Edw ar J Z. C. Judson has been held to $2,000 bail for publishing a libel of the ^ros=est 
characltr tipon MissGeorgianaC. Crcan, sister of Mrs. James Gordon Eennei. The char- 
ges tnsde against the lady are tntally unfit for publication, and the class of papers who in- 
dulge in s ich n;onstroiis pollution of ihe press oiit;ht to Ije iii^moiisly snppresv,.,', a;,.! iheir 
editors, p ihlisi.ers, prnpiictor^, and aijens of every de>crip!ioi: (or at le^st a" uho kaow 
Iheir chfraner) severely piini-hed." — Sin:J,iy din irr. 

TH ; POISON ;n CHALICE £'i;f.ssi:d home. 

" The police report of Saiiiiday cnniain?(l ihe arrest of Mr. Judson, upon arhar3e of iibel 
againsi a Miss Creafi. The ariicle cmirdained of was one which invited le;zalproceidings, 
and for that purpose made charges Vi'hich gave us crtai pain to read, and to ihennlonunate 
worn in thus assailed, must have caused greatasony of mind. Mr. Jtid.ion accuse^ the ed- 
itor of the Herald of wilful mi^represeniaiion of an unlb'tunaie oci-urrence. disgraceful to 
everybody b^ut him-^elf; disgraceful 'o ih • woman who made the assault upon him, and to 
the bench who cho.-fc to consiih-r 1i,t nflenre mo iiivinl (or piini-hmeni. .'■till, there i< no 
provocation which can ju^nlv sucK .Dai'Hlr No mailer what th"' ccnduct ol the lady 
(and wj a;e o pesun e in the alven •* 'I pii i! ' er clinr,:ctrr inepr 'nchabie } her acts are 
privat ■ ; \> i hjihcm liie public have notliiii; lu d.'.' — F.T,-nir:-j: Mirrur. 

A U )DliRN II lELLF.R. 

" Our ttlection has been di'ecied to an atrociou-; and en\varri;y libel upon a lady, pub- 
lished in a low, scurrilous sheet in this city. The community of iN'evv V'oik is rema:lcably 
forbearin;;. bu! if such intam'ous attack.;, upon private ciiizens as this, are permitted to go 
unwhipped of justice, it is about time to discard all pretence, of law, decency, and protec- 
tion." — SundaJ/ Era. 

In conclusion, I ma_v just observe, that I was present \\lien Ned finally 
made up his mind to libel Miss Crean, which was as follows. The Herald 
in its official duty, gave a report of Miss Kate Hasting's trial for cowhid- 
jng Nel, which report annoyed Ned, because hi.^ foul anonymous 
letters were produced in Court, and caused a well-deserved burst of in- 
dignation from the liench upon the man capable of writing them, and conse- 
quently dismissed Ned's charge against her. Ned came to the shop and gave 
.an oath, adding, " / u-ill rip up /.he c/iarar/er cfthc u'hore of a sisler of that cock- 
eyed villain Bennell ncxl week.'''' I'hus he proved his malicious intent afore- 
thought. " , 

I need not add that the good-for-nothing braggart has been trying to escape 
from the consequences of his temerity — that he has one of his employees bu- 
sily engaged endeavoring to " make the case up," and offering to eat his own 
words, and retract the scanJalous and malicious libel, if they would do so ; 
but they wori't, Neddy. 



NED AT THE OPERA HOUSE A.S A RIOTER. 

" Nero fiddled whih Rome zoas burning.''^ 

That ever-to-be-deplored tragedy at Astor House must be too fresh in the 
minds of all to require any detailing in this place, and it is only referred to 
lie.-n's" oitr vi'i.r.'T: iiF.no had a hand in it. Of course, that will sur- 
prise none who reflect on his character, a.^ far as we have now related it. ' A 
cowardly- and licentious rascal who could insult a woman, a creature who 
could seduce and then leave to the tender merci-es of a brothel poor Dora 
Janes, a scoundrel who could carry a horrible disease to the bosom of his 



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wife, a depraved villuiii who would wage war against the fireside of a young 
lady, uMiss Crean, the Ghoul who could use his foul sheet as a firebrand t» 
lead a mob on to the destruction of lifu and property, can do anything, it 
gratfied iiis tyrannical, insolent and cruel nature. He is too narrow-minded, too 
Urtiiitelloctual to repudiate all distinctions and casles in society. Like a par- 
rot he can by rote repeat the words Republicanism, Native Americanism, 
the " BEGGARLY ScoTcn," the ^'- Ftlon English," the " viperly Irish," the 
FEowzY DoTCH, but he knows nothing of the meaning of fraternity, love 
and charity between all men, and the dangerous tendency to re.il KEruBLi- 
CANis.M the fostering .\ny p.vrtizax or sfctio-nal feelings. What cares such 
a Protean wretch for any .society or any body of men, except so far as he caa 
make geese of them? It is such modern Esaus as Ned that perpetuate party 
STRIFE, and blaspheme against the Divine tendencies of humanity. The 
Magistrates verj' justly arrested him as a leader, and held him to bail. Thus 
speaks a portion of the Press : 

WHO CAU.-ED THE RECENT TKACGEL Y.- 

" All of our cily readers anJ mo.^t of our country fiiends are doubtless aware ere ihi^r 
that the iir.'naculate NeJ Buniliiie was arrested on the evening of Thur.sJay, while in the 
act of lieadinn the mob, and lias since been held to bail to answer for llie offence in the 
sum cf $1 ,000. This fact is well known, nor can he deny ihal he was on llie ground and 
IN DISGUISE, Laving on a li^lu colored momcev jacket, or a short overcoat, i.nd a Tom 
HvER CAP ON HIS HEAL. He luiviiig worn through the day a blle frock coat with 
f.iLT BUTTONS AND A HAT. Wc saw him no less than feven times during; the day of 
Thursday, dririns; furiously ihrnujh the f^treets It a light wa'.'on accompanied by a 
boy, who held his horse when he stopped. Why was he so active during the day? 
Wny was he not at home attending to ihe wants of his sick family ■ Perliaiis he will 
Le ablt to answer these questions satisfactorily on his public examination." 

A RIOTER JUGGED. 

" The above engraving (see Scorpion) represents one of the Astor Theatre Rioters, as 
he apix-ared on the morning .suli.sequent to his arre.^t. He desired hail to release him 
from his incarceration, au'l, 1 understand, caused to be printed on a strip of white, the sign 
and Kgure repre.'^cntir.^ $1,000, indicalive of ihcamount required to liberate him from "du- 
rance vile." A gentliman, after .some hesitation, was imluced to become his surely, and 
ttie humiliated crealuie was permitted to fly to his sick family, w'hom he had deserted, to 
participate in the riot and disturbance of the public peace, of the evening previous." 

The following 1 clip from an extra of the Scorpion, published at the pe- 
riod : 

Cie of the most deplorable and heait-rending catastrophes that ever occurred in this 
land of freedom, is yet the all-imiiortanl topic of everybody. 

The grand questions of debate and cogitation are — The Origin of the Riot — Its leaders, 
arid its Horrifying Results. , 

True, we are not, like a despicable contemporary, the valiant leader of a window- 
smashing, theatre- burning gang 

True, we do not write this E.vtra from a cell, where we are confined with " birds of 
a feather," whom we have duped, swayed, and then cowardly deserted and denounced. 

True, we have not quarrelled with any man and got beaten, and then, in mean-souled 
revenge, attacked an innocent and unolit;nding woman ! ! ! 

True, we do not, when in a scrape, endeavor to excite public sympathy for ourselves 
by simulating grief for a sick wife! 

We distinctly declare that we do not issue an EKtra, Io inflict on the reader a detail of 
stale patrii tism, swagger, and pinchbeck, twaddle and mendacity, similations of domestic 
eiffl^ction or aflection,and siaiilar undigested hyjiocrisies. 

No, we are not unmanly enough to hunt on a vulgar mob, either to break windows, 
burn houses, or gloat on the pleasures of dragg ng a sensitive and retired lady before the 
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Nor are we ihe hearlless cannibals and Ghouls as lo tear and lacerate female sensi- 
liility to gratify our foul-mouthed vindictiveness, or cravenly drag another Itmale forward 
to shelter us from our rascality. 

In shf rt, we do not soar above E\EKTBODYm what we sat, and sink below the mean- 
est of the earth in what we do. 

We do not float on a maudlin heaven of declamation, about " virtue," " honor," and 
all that, and fall down to feed on the ofFal and garbage of vice — yea, and the veriest pol- 
troonery ! 

Our Extra has no arrogant pretensions to set forth — no deceitful statements as to our 
conduct to bJaiter in print — no treacherous admissions to make — no vile imposluie, char- 
latanism or cowardice to gloss over. We have no affected patriotism to cover our hell- 
born brood of vices. We do not depend upon crafty shiftiness, glaring frau:l, uiiblusiiing 
hypocrisy, or spluttering apologies to maintain our existence, or gammon Ameiicans in- 
to the notion or belief their interests are dependent on ouk Iroth ; or that our one idea 
creed consists in damning all coun'.ries and countrymen but our own. 



NED TAKES THE PLEDGE AGAIN. 

He is all things lo all men, 

" Next week, my subject for a leading editorial, and for the people to look at and think 
of will be the groggeries licensed aLnd unliccnced, of the town. I will calmly look at iheir 
various evils, and if I can, suggest ooine remedies. While I thank my kind friends and 
fellow-citizens for an immense, an unexpectedly large patronage, I assure them that I will 
not pause or slacken in my efforts for general good. While I make a set of rascally thieves 
and gamblers my enemies. I am winning thousands of valued, appreciated friends, who will 
see me out in every laudable undertaking. I will never faulter — never back from friend or 
foe! My course is onward; I have neither time or inclination to look back. I am doing 
well; I am making money as well as friends, I candidly acknowledge: and my knowledge 
of the miseries of this city, teaches me how and whore to spend it. I do not and will hoard 
it up like a miser; I consider it but as seed sown in my field of labor which is bound to 
apring up and feed many." — Ned's Ovjn. 

So said Ned in the above article. But what is the truth ? Why just this. That Ned 
seldom, if ever, at the period referred to, went home to his meek, long-suffering wife, 
except in a state of intoxication, with his clothes torn or soiled by brothel violence ! To 
such an extent was this inebriety carried, lo such conclusion did it last arrive, that en 
the evening after the Riot, Mrs. JuJ.son declared her intention of " sejiaration," unable 
longer to endure contact with such beastly sotlishness! ! Ned, who seems to have no 
idea of mokal or divine justice, went on his knees, wrote an oath of the most feah- 

FUL CHARACTER, DECLARING HIS WISH, that "GoD WOULD STRIKE HIM DEAD IF HE DRANK 
ONE GLASS OF LIQUOR FOR TWELVE MONTHS, UNLKSS PRESCRIBED FOB MEDICALLY ! This 

oath, only more fearfully and awfully worded, he swore to keep, on his knef.s, before 
the family, on the night after the astor house riot. Reader, how think you the 
Great N Y. Moral Reformer kept this oath to the wife, whom he now tries to 
STAB ? Ned came home the next morning dead drunk : ! ! 

Comment is iinnece.«;sary, yet cfeinnot 1 avoid an exclamation of astonishment how 
Ned has so long gammoned Ihe public with his lachrymal whinings of Refoim. Scores, 
ay, hundreds of times have I, during, l.i.<t tvvelvemonlbs Peen him drunk in the many 
saloons along Broadway — often has he been so tipsy in I'almo's that he could hardly 
stand up to fij^ht for a kis.* with thegiilsof the saloon — often has he come from Kate 
Ridgely's of Duane street, reeking with liquor — Kate by the bve, is on his free list loo — 
often has he come muddled as an owl, from that bawdy No. 4 Thompson street — in short, 
from scores of brothels — from even more drunkeries has it been my lot to see him emerge. 
Yet he is modestlt saying to his wife and the world that he hates Intemperance. 

I will give the opinions of the press ne.xt. 

"GENTLEMEN DRINK HERE." 

** A few evenings ago, I heard the above remark in * Horn's Bowling Saloon," come from 
the mouth of that immaculate ruinsucker and public moralist, who has several times signed 
the pledge, perpetrated stulifying addresses before ladios of temperance ao^ other associa- 



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'tions in this city. The people nf New York are not aware of the ondleas variety of character 
this chamelion has and does assume. Iiiihe name of common sense and decency, what else 
are the merits of this ihing that should entitle him lo assnme the iiirsof an amiable member 
ofsOL'iety — ami bo somftime): credited as such by even respecliible people? Truly, he is 
hi.< ' Owu' eulogist, 'firm iu the right cause' of a vile hypocrisiy. Does the render wonder 
who this public teacher is ? Well, it was he who after seducing a wife, committed afoul 
andbhoiy murder on her husband; it was he who lUerally starved his first icife, while he 
was revelling widi wenches of easy virtue, gambling luid drinking, which said wiCe died of 
want, a broken heart, and bad usage; but tliou the murder was uot au actionable one, 'it 
was under the rose.' It was he who not a long while ago introduced into Boston. Philadel- 
phia, and on steamboats, railroads, and even into his own father's house, as his wife, a 
woman, who kept him from starving, and whom he deserted like a vernal scoundrel, to marry 
an English woman who had money. 

** Cau we fathom a worse instance of mercenary, deceitful, heartless indecency, and dis- 
gusting hypocrisy in the filthiesiT;es3pool of debauchery, or in the dirtiest sink of pollution ? 
How shall we account for his filthy lusts, lies, and hypocrisies escaping notice ? The key 
is found in the sang froid and bullying artifice he possesses of giving a fair name to foul ac- 
tions, so that muddled simpletons cannot see them, and ho bullies or buys with his English 
wife's gains, thoso that do. But is prostituliou the most miserable, cruelty the most horri- 
ble, hypocrisy the most detestable, dissipation the most censurable, less condemnatory be- 
cause iVed Toicline gives At'mjfV the airs ofa censor and bravo? because he yearly gains, 
arising from wife hunting, and girl seducing tact, enables him to enshroud himself m the 
mantle of impudence, and passes his impunity for innocence ? 

"Yet this Vulpone actually simpers in his Weakly Own about virtue! honor', truth'. 
' Pah! an ounce of civet, good apothecary, to sweeten my imagination !" 

A HELL HOLE. f 

'• There is an infamous haunt at No. 36 Eighth Avenue, kept by a man named Ashley, who 
cloaks the doings of the place under the appeaiance of a cigar dealer, while in a rear room 
liquor is sold without license, and gambling, and rowdyism, and obscenity, are permitted 
nightly, which engender broils and disorder, to the great annoyance of the neighborhood. 

Many people complain of it as a nuisance, and wonder that the Police do not mterfere to 
put dovvn the establishment, and end the scenes -of debauchery and profligacy there con- 
stantly enacted. The frequenters to the den are mo.^tly counter jumpers, and snob gentry. 
A rather goorl-looking girl, called Mary, appears to be the principal attraction* but there 
ia nothing of modesty in her deportment, and the language she frequently indulges in, 
shows her degraded character. There was another girl employed here, but being a res- 
pactablo female, she was unwilling to adapt herself to the convenience of the landlord 
and his customers, and was accordingly discharged. The same establishment was recent- 
ly declared a nuisanee by ' Ned Buutliue,' but it appears that he is now a visitor to the 
same, and of course in his estimation, it is now a 'horse of another color.* The paper 
called Ned Bunlline's Ocrn is here sold, the keeper alleging that he does so that he may 
keep in favor with the renowned red-haired reformer. 

" Wo are glatl, however, to be informed that tho owner of the premises will not re-let 
the same again for these vile p^urposcs. Did we know this gentleman's name, we should 
publish it, as an example to other property holders to imitate him in leasing houses iSx. 
We here inform Ashley and his crew, that if they do uot exhibit signs of reformation prior 
to our next issue, we shall introduce the whole party to our fighting editor, whose por- 
trait may be seen in the first column, at the head of the Scorpio^, and we promise them 
tJiat if they oome within grasp of his claws, they will most assuredly die the deaii.'." 

NED BUXTLINE AND HIS DEFENDERS. 

<' The meanest dog ofa human being is not without his friends. This is a tranf worthy 
ofHe:»ven. The following letter will explain itself. We believe we have acted towards 
Buntlme in all fairness and justice. He is a public -character, and as such open to public 
investigation. He professes to be a reformer of the morals of the community, while it is 
notorious to many that his associations are of the most depraved character. He professes 
femperaa-e^ and belongs 10 some 'Order' of that kind, while he seeks every Gccasion to 
indulge in drunken debauch. He prolosses e.'Clra virtue, while there are some three or four 
women in this city who claims him as Iheir paramour, ( if not as their husband) taking his 
iname and refusmg to be known by any other. He preaches against gambling, and yet has 
been seen gambling very recently. We cannot but regard him cis a wolf in sheep's cloihing, 
and therefore conceive it our ' business,' as a public journalist, to put our people on their 
guard against this man, and show lorth his disgusting practices." 

la regard to ourseK, we confess frailty and a liability to err in comtflon with all maBkind, 
Siut we have not set ourself up as a pattern oi virtue and morals, and then violated every 
article of the Decalogue Our conduct is open to all, but we think we may safely chal- 



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leijge any "one" to say aught cf us on the score of liho:i;ni'<m, debauchery, and gambling 
while in other respects there are few crow6 mucii h hiler ul le;.iiier. W e, however, do nol 
boast clour "immaculate character." We em'.eavor to make cur acilous mforJ wiih 
cur icorJs. If we have failed in any one poi.-it we are open lo t-xposuie and admonilinn. 
We tear not ihe lash. If ue deserve it, we shall expect lo receive castigaliou. Who will 
te our chastiser 1 

'•NED BUNTLIKE" 

''" A correspondent, naming his letter Ann Siren, wishes to know ;he reason why Ned, 
Buntline has shaved off his dirly red wiskers, nnA !efi only a tuli of wool on his wpj er lid 
remaining"? AVe cannot say — It's one of thefeihuv's affectations of ecceniricity, and an- 
other evidence of his inconsi^iency. Some lime since, he said that he lefi ihe hair on his 
face nnsbaved, because such was the praclice of itie Patri^chs and Apostles. Perhaps he 
now feels, since he has been flo^^ed by Kale Hayings, and sunken so low in degradaticB, 
that he is no longer fit to follow the example oi ihe Patriarchs ol old, in the matter ol long 
beards. 

"The .same correspondent says, that this Refonner and Apnsile ol Temperance was seen 
by a number of persons in Horn's Bowling ."Saloon, a lew evenings since, in a s'aie cf 
hichvfing i-nebriaJion." 



'J' FIRM IN THE RIGHT CAUSE." 

# \Turn aiouc and wheel alcw.. 

The notorious, not celebrated, Ned Buntline, professes to be governed by 
the precepts of the above motto. AVe should like his definition of the above 
■words, but in default thereof, will take the common one, and show, that by 
this test, he is not only a hypocrite, liar, and a humbug, but that his preten- 
sions to the confidence and patronage even of his admirers, is based on the most 
hollow of foundations. To aid us in our painful task, wo refer to the files 
of his own sheet to confound the impostor, and assist in robbing him of the 
"livery of Heaven," which he assumed to do the work of hell. 

Ex uno disce omncs, from one thing judge all. Ned commenced his 
"Bawdy House Directory," bj' employing the notorious scoundi-el Weisscl- 
hoff, alias Dr. Alvear, alias Houghton, as his theatrical reporter. At length 
the "A'ew York Organ" expressed surprise that a man who pretended fo 
so much sanctity of purpose could lend himself to puff Iheaties, and Ned 
who had quarrelled with, and betrayed his quondam I'eporter, at once ad- 
mits that he had been wrong in so doing, claims merit for having omitted 
to report these places for the last two weeks (when he was unable to do so), 
and pledges his word, that he would be hereat'ter " firm in the right cause," 
and never offend again. I clip the following critique on the subject frona 
a respectable Sunday paper : 

•'Ned Buntline's ' Own' says: 

'•' I hal'e had to cut down my ThealHeal CcntriLulor's article ihis week. 

" Is'ed is used lo culling down : if sorriebody had not en/ linwn ite poor « rclch when the 
citizens of Nashville hung hiin up to a'lamp-post to gel rid of Ihe nuisance, he would not 
now be alive 10 nauseate ihe public of New York byhis abominable _M rfc rol, which he 
shamelessly ciUs his ' Own.' It is too bad in such a scurrillous paper as Ned Bunlline's 
10 be constantly alluding to our amiable and talented liicnd Burns' paper, ' The Disp/iick^' 
as the 'Sunday Weakly' — the editor ol that journal, however, can never be aflecied by 
anything such a creaiure may say — the pun is as poor as ihe malice is mean. 

"Because another oi our coniemporaries, loo, happens lo be edited bv a native of another 
country, this 'Black Sheep of ihe Press' has ihe meanness lo leproach him wiih being 'a 
foreigner.'' 

The above pre\%rication can be certified by calling on Slessrs. Olirer 
&c, Editors of the New' York Organ, or by reference to back numbers of 
" Ned's .Own." 



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'i he game took, until, being in company with some dissipated al/aches 
of thi> tlieatrical profession, he changed his tune. The '• Firm Reforniei'" 
came out with an article declaring " He will no longer lulca his real senti- 
ments to please any one," and the theatrical criticisms re-appear in his col- 
umns. Havin,' at last found the " right cause," we may expect to see a 
little '• /r/zi/iMj" in one who pretends to so much, but how greatly are the 
upholders of his cansistencj' shocked to hear him, soon ai'ter the Astor Place 
riot, announce " that he was done with theatres, he could no longer con- 
scientiously uphold such places." After this we hoped lie would for his own 
sake, or for the sake of those who advocated and upheld him, remain " iirin 
in the right cause ;" but judge our surprise, when, shortly after, he announc- 
ed that lie was to take a benefit at the Chatham Thectre, in a new plaj' just 
written for that establishment ! 

We defy his friends and advocates to show where, in this statement, we 
have been guilty of a single misrepresentation or untruth. Take his paper, 
read Xhe facts we ha,ve stated there, and draw your own conclusions as to the 
■'firmness" of this Model Kefomer. 

If he will '■'■ belic'^ his real sentiments on one occasion, will he not do so 
on others '. 

Is he not then' unworthy either of public confidence or esteem 1 

And now. hxj jiroof, having dcscrredihe confidence of our readers, we will 
proceed to another portion of our task 

Edward Judson, or ai he delights to be called, Ned Buntline, alias Pirate 
of the Hud.-on, has been charged by many of the New York papers with 
being guiltj' of all the crimes that can degrade humanity ; fact after fact 
was thrown in his face which he could not deny or disprove, so he artfully 
took the ground that the character of the papers were such as to preclude 
him from any controversj- with them ; but, says our rei'ormer, let any decent 
paper take up these slanders, let any respectable Editor endorse them, and 
I'll then delend myself — I'll exterminate him — I'll then enter into the arena 
and satisfactorily prove lo all the world, my injured innocence. This was 
plausible, and his friends believed it. But has he done so 1 We answer 
No ! and we will prove it. , 

The literary world, all know the deservedly high standing of the Boston 
Aurora Borealis — a paper second to none — and all who are wzj-acquainted 
with its character, can become so by inquiring of any respectable publisher 
or newspaper agent. Well, this paper, week after week published a series 
of degrading charges against the same "Ned Buntline," written by their 
New York correspondent, a gentleman well acquainted with the daily habits 
of the creature, and although the paper was sent him every week, it being 
on his exchange list, he pocketed the accusations, and dared not say a word 
in his defence. 

If the reader is a friend of this Ned Buntline, an upholder of this public- 
ly-branded scoundrel, and doubts our worJ, let him send to the Editor of the 
Aurora Borealis, Bo>:ton, .Massachusetts, and convince himself He will 
find that Judson's character has been impeaciied by highly respectable evi- 
dence, and that a guilty silence is this pajagon's sole defence. 



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NED'S PLAY AT THE CHATHAM. 

The rascal plagiarist. 

Despite the ftEFORMER's repeated declaration that theatres were the " cat- 
erers of hell;" despite his drunken declamations, and wriggling lubricity, 
this cunning animal actually had a play produced at the Chatham, whoso ben- 
efits he not only received the lion's share of, but took a.private benefit besides! 
Ned a'int avaricious ! oh, no ! Well, this pjay, even in the present low and 
emaciated condition of the Drama, was the most common-place lollipop, 
and base imitation ever foisted on the stage. [ insert the following critique 
upon it, word for word ; 

THE STAGE. 

What an easy thing it is for a man to prophesy uow-a-days. A little reason and common 
sense, a slight capacity for tracing cause and effect, and we might set up shop as fortune- 
tellers. Truly, therefore, may we prophesy the decline of dramatic literature, when we 
behold the temples of the histr'onic muse turned into arenas for displays of dulness, disgust- 
ing moral monstrosities, low desires, and vulgar vanities. We have visited this theatre, 
and while complimenting the managerial tact of Mr. Chanfrau, and the dramatic ability of 
Mr. Baker— and both po'ssess that happy savoir faire which places them beyond dispute, 
amongst the select fern wh« know how to use their abilities to their own advantage, and 
everybody else's satisfaction, yet have they not been able to purge " Three Years After, ' of 
its original clap-trap, duluesi, licentiousness, and bad morals. 

In spite of the dictum of facile scribes, and a subsidized Press, we unhesitatingly declare 
that nothing makes it tolerated but the representative abilities of Mesdames Mestayer and 
Woodward, Messrs.Chaufrau, Burke, Seymour, Pardey, and Herbert, and the peculiar songs 
Mr. Baker Ins so aptly introduced into the piece. Mr. Clianfrau, as Moae, would carry any 
piece through, and we observed he certainly made superhuman exertions for that purpose. 
But we can easily foretell the /'ato of dramatic composition, when its success entirely de- 
pends on an efficient troupe. A long farewell to genius, when bombast, rant, fustian, and 
improbability, by the force of a little influence, or pandering to vitiated tastes, can secure a 
place on the stage. 

_ We should be sorry to imagine that the stage should depend on the piquancy of its seduc- 
tions, the baldness of its villauy. the broadness of its indecency, and general tendency to pro- 
fanity, as is indicated by this piece. We should be sorry also that the crowd of boys who 
exhibited such undisguised gusto at the scenes of dissipation, salacious sonM, flash-terms, and 
brutal wit of the burglars, was to be taken as a fair sample of the youth of New York.— 
Were it so, society might be justly alarmed, when such sentiments are inculcated as in the 
'• Three Years After." In this piece, a man must be a rowdy ere he can be brave; the youth 
of education must be a gambler and libertine ere he have a conscience ; a thief, ere he can 
be \vitty or wealthy, and a woman become a prostitute before she can be interesting or ap- 
Jjrociate virtue ! We must be dragged through the kennels of iniquity ere we can "see 
life ! " Bah ! it is absurd — uay, worse, to say that this piece is founded on truth or fiction. 

Its counterpart is to be found in the beastly story of" Ada," issued from that hut-bed of 
scurrility tbo Press of Lloyd in London, altered to suit tH2 city of NhW York. Bat! 
as it is in the original story of low London life, altered into the " Mysteries and Myseries," 
makes it worse. To plagiarise a low European novel, seems to require no knowledge of 
grammar, composition, morality, or of human nature, but simply to compile multitudinotia 
crimes, infamous practices, incredible prostitutions, interlarded with vapid inanities, and 
puerile insipiilities. The plagiarist evidently knew little of real life or misery, with which 
he could neither sympathise or alleviate, but simply mislead. An American moralist ! and 
reformer ! ought not to be a vile plagiarist of the very lowest European Press. 

Has the original story upon which this drama is founded any real merit ? has been asked. 
It has been answered above. Whatever merit it claims originally belonged to a contemned, 
despised, and degraded peuny-a liner of London. Has the play intricacy of plot ?— collo- 
quies either terse, brilliant, or poetic ? Just the reverse. It has no plot. It is truly aed 
simply a prosy conglomeration of pocket-picking, burglary, venality, rowdyism, prostitution, 
and suicide, while its colloquies and scenes are such as no woman worthy of the name could 
see or hear without a blush, and no man take pleasure in without self-degradation. Has it 
a moral as a finale ? No ! Unless a smeide is moral. Philanthropists, go ! mark its eflecta 
on the crowd of news-boys, &c. — see its debasements rendered familiar to their eyes and 
ears — see ita baneful eSects sulking like a plague-spotinto their uncultivated hearts— then 
echo, if you can, in triumph, and celebrate in jubilee the glorious iutelligence? 

We have a drama that stuhifies the intellect and brutifies the soul ! 



43 

TO THE U. A. M. AND 0. U. A. 

BT AN AMERICAN CITIZEN. 

LET TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD GRAITLK. 

A word to the Orders, rersniially, I can say little ofyou. but if I MfSTrorm si jiitlgment 
by the eiiiliodiment ol'your principles and yoiir seir-rlccted cliampion, the drunken •' Ned 
Buniline," on liie old sjiyiug. •' that birds of a feather flock together," you must be a pi-Jlty 
disgraceful set. 

No Amcriciin working-man. who cares for his reputation, or the confidence of his employ- 
er, will wisli to bo connected with an Order, the most conspicuous member ol which is 
known to be a drunken patriot and bar-room spouter, living princiindly in a rum-shop, at 
Bull's Kerry, christened in compliment to him " The Lnnd Pirate's Retreat ! " I'atrio- 
tism is doubtless a very commendable quality— Ned has taken care that it should be a profi- 
table ONK. He says you are indebted to hiui for speeches nnd advertisements — he foraels to 
mention that you procured him 500 readers at $3 j-er head, amounting to $1500 a year, be- 
sides applauding and backing him in all private villainies and public extortions. In prool 
whereof you have not hesitated to bring your iimocent wives and daughters to shake hands 
with a man, who, not one hour before, has been known to come reeking from a brothel ; yes, 
your wives and daughters have smiled upon the man whose first wife died under liis treat- 
ment of her— whose tiands are stained with the blood of the husband of a wife he was char- 
ged with seducing-^whose present wife and father, mother and brothers, mute in proclami- 
mg the most detestable of villains— you hear him also declaring he hates his wife— threaten 
ing to shoot her fatlier— ofTenDg to " wade up to his knees in blood for revenge," (see letter 
to nis wife) and that poor young wife whom his drunkenness, his lies, his beastly personal 
habits, and his adulteries have driven to seek a divorce, Tou ! are supposed, and declared, 
by NsD, to assist in condemning and persecuting. 

Brethrsn of these .-V.merica.n- Orders, .Ned tells you that a young, and he admits, a 
warm-hearted, virtuous woman who married him ai'ter a brief acquaintance, ceases to love 
him because he is an American, and her parents Engli.sh ! What a horrible perversion ot 
truth ! What a libel on woman's love. Such is not the nature of woman's heart— such is 
not the nature of woman's love. Dark and damning must be the guilt that has caused 
her to spurn liim from her presence, and institute proceedings for broach of nuptial vows, 
and to seek an irrevocable divorce ! 

Are Americans so silly and ridicalons as credit assertions so defiant of common sense as 
ttiose i\ed spreads abroad about his wife and family? Mr. Bennett, though not American 
born, is a naturalized citizen of twenty vear.s' standing, while the whole family are not mily 
citizens but honest, though unostentatious individuals. Again, the whole family knew Ned 
to be an American when he imposed himscll on them, pciinyless, friendless, and soulless. 
Before marriage ilie family paid his deb:s — provided him clothing for marriage— put money 
in his packet for that wedding tour — kept him in their bouse free of expense — started tlie pa- 
per for him which he called his " Own," and never in word or deed spoke, or cared about 
his SATIVECisM or FoiiEiG.NiSM-cared nothing of his ranting, snufiling.or frothy twaddle about 
party questions, only begged, rem.onstrated, prayed he vvoulil be sober — that he would not 
blaspheme so — that"he would keep better hours— that he would bring no more bad diseases 
to their house ; and, at last, when every other means failed— when his adulteries and seduc- 
tions were too glaring to be tolerated or endured — then, but not till then, and only tor 

these crimes, nm the wife RE^«*K TO REMAIN tINPER THE SAME ROOF. 

The eyes of the public is on the " Orders " to see their rcsolvesin this mailer. I eriiaps 
like the " Free Masons '' in the Morgan excitement, they will try to conceal the crimes m 
their guilty brolhe.^ Perhans their motto is, " Our brother, right or wrong." I' so, the in- 
nocent must he confoundju widi the guilty, and but lillle induence can societies ever pos- 
sess who are so deficient in honor. li you are really honeM and welLmeaning societies, you ^ 
•will invcstigaie the ch.arges made. 'You will call on the injurde" wife for her version 
of the matter, even if she is Engli.-h and vou American by birth. If you really uisap- 
proreof ilrnnlcenness,.scn(l a commiuee to Palmo's Horn's. Bull's Ferry, Kate Hastings ana 
-other uiunkeries referred to in this pamphlet, not foigelling the family's .statements, and it 
Ned is a habitual drunkard eipel him. You have heard Neil's story; be inen enough lo in- 
vestigaie the other side; then, if you find him innocent proclaim it to the world under your 
official seal! but if not innocent, pm the public on their guard. . .. 

Ned is publiciv charged by Mr. Bennett, 10 Abingdon square, wilh Irequenlly yi.Mling 
liouses of ill-fame, &c., &c., Ac, &c., &c., Ac, let your committee visit hiin and dematid 
proofs, and let the public know the result. Dare you do this ? or can brother Judson stili 
deceive you ?— still lead you like calves by the ears 7 still fill your skulls with moon- 
shine, empty your pockets, and sing you a maudlin lullaby. . . 

In conclusion, I would recommend Ned the to patronage of the police, could I imagine his 
puerile appeals to Americans could make you (orget you are men !. Ned's small ambitioa 



is 1o rivalForre't and MacreaiJy, ami inaice a nsiii.nal q i-s:ion (hu I'l pe'sonal difiVrences 
bct«-een him*e!f an^l Lis iaili'-'r-'in-la«r. Tlie re;;l ■.•isiie b?ni-;;t;r. hi-; wife srid Ned, is not one 
(•i birlh, bu! ofNe-l's n^iulierv — il is not the Ar.i;rican, I..1; ihe aiinlterer she seeks In rob- 
(.f his " A:nencan bov. ' Mtr Gud preservt- ilip righr, ?.n-l may the stripes of his national 
flag fall heavily on the -a^cal's laci:. who woull involve ihe argry blood ul national preju- 
dice to shield him in hit private wroi-g. 



TO AMERICANS GENERALLY. 

/ am a great ?nr:?i, I am. 

Really this is (lie era cf humbug ' Since writing the last chapte;', a "spree"' 
of Ned's has just come to light which shows hoiv far impudent assumption^ 
canting imposture, self-puffing quackery, and bare-faced impudence prevail 
amongst a del;ided public. A pettifogger has only to worm himself into the 
good graces of one or two orders, lie, cheat, swindle, become a physical and 
moral assassinator, seduce girls, trample upon wives, threatens to shoot fa- 
thers, blackguard everybody, and to shield his private wrongs, tell these 
"Orders," call upon these Americans, to abuse a country and countrymen 
■who know nothing of either Ned or his villanies ; who would think them- 
selves diss;raced by shaking his blood-stained hand ; and who could not but 
ihink ( that is to say, if they ever heard Ned's name ) that wretch the most 
detestible of scoundrels, who , would delude his countrymen into destroying 
the fratcrind feeling of a community, on purpose to be kevenged on his wife ! 
But read the follov^ing from "Ned's Own," dated Aug. 25th, lS-1-9. 

" Talfcingof Englislimen puis me in mind of the cruise of the Yauiit i^n Inst Friday. At 
sunrise on that day the siar-sp.ingled b.-innc-r was run up to iitr rnasi liead ituinejiately vn- 
der it, union down, was SL-cn the ILij; of that nation uhjth proudly boasl^ th.itlhe sun never 
set on its wide domains, ir.e (lag wii'iidi ia red with lielaiid's t>lood--thi blood of the wrong- 
ed and starving poor. The Vachi was got unJcrweigh, procteil^d down the river, and sail- 
ed completely around tlie city, heaving too under the stern of ihe English Steamer, to fire a 
saluie. Alter having spent the entire day in s.iiling around, beating a couple of pilot boats 
■when it was blowing a -'snorter," and having fired a gun for every State in the Union, I 
fired the E.sglisu Flag Irom my gUD asa /in«?c,accJ:iingto my previous promise.''— A'efZV 
Otcn. 

There's a warrior for you ! True, there was no enemy, but Ned showed 
you what he would do if there were ! Ned, if no great beauty, and a 
look at him will satisfy anybody, yet he inuat he a dreadful Salamander, 
and doubtless takes sulphur posset for his breakfast, gets drunk upon 
aqua-fortis instead of brandy, cleans his ^etli with " port-fire," shaves 
himself with lunar caustic instead of soap, dines upon stewed bombshells 
and pickled hand-granades, takes lightning for his tea, and eats ca,nnon 
balls for supper, aiid yet let Mr. McGowan kick him; and on the ISlh of 
this present Augi^'st, Lieutenant Potter told him in the presence of thirty 
witnesses, that he was " a Liar, a Coward, a Drunkard, a Seducer, and a 
Murderer," when he had the chance! So, after all, this lion wears a 
donkey's ears and tail; and, fitter to fight his own shadow than the real 
enemies of his country ; deserves rather to have his head decked with a 
cabbace than a laurel ! Yes, this poor-souled footman's true field of fight 
is still the oyster cellar and the brothel. 

But, America.ns ! why should he use your name to perpetrate sucb 
puerile charlatanism ; why should you be made puppets to his mounte- 
bankism \ why should you endorse his twaddle, that you are either 
his "dupes or nobodies!" Why should he be allowed to bamboozle 
and stultify justice, on the pretence that he is an "jJmerican," and that 
Americans will shield kirn! in rascality! What has Ned done so great. 



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so inintiiiibL', and so JUiritireJrd, tliat h;i sliOuld bel.eve hiinselt" tolerated 
by you to tramplo on all who will not be literally ruined or murdered 
quietly by him \ Is it because, like a baby, he took and fired the Englisli 
flag out of a cannon, in revenge to his poor wife 1 Do you know that his 
wile whom he tries to d'lmji has lived in this country from fivi! vears old, 
that her parents are mH naturalized of eighteen years standing, that they 
have lived here respected, and intend ;o die here, that their feelings, habits, 
and interests are all American 1 Do you know that Lieutenant Potter is 
an American ; that Ned's own father, mother, and sister whom he hated 
were Americans ; that the first wife whom he served even worse than his 
present oiir- was American; that Porterfield's wife \\ horn he seduced was 
an American, as was also her hus!)a:;d \ That the violences he perpetrated 
in Cincinnati, Pittsburg, Boston, and Philaielphia, were on Americans ; 
that the parties he h:is swindled jn each of iliose places were Americans; 
that those he black-mailed in New York were Americans! In short, 
AMEi;icA.\s, can yo\i not see that this miserable demagogue, felon in 
countenance, narrow in intellect, shrivelled in soul. ;nierilf and vulgar in 
taste, and criminal in his appetites, is covering yoft with displace as with 
a m.antle ? 

Americans! look at your country ; the land of the free, the refuge of the 
oppressed, the beacon of hope and example to Europe: this land of phi- 
Josrphers, ])oets, and legislators; this land of free press ami jury trials 
attempted to be degraded and disgraced by a creature, little removed 
from the monkey-tribe, in'.o a scene of fratricidal hatred lo " koeeignees " 
whom you have spontaneously invited to your shores, and ail en purpose to 
shield a rascal's criminal commerce \ No! Americans will not so disgrace 
themselves, or allow a being who cares for no country, to disgrace them, 
because he calls himself a patriot to hide his selfish libertinism! Ameki- 
CASs are not such humbvgs as believe with this kumbus:ger, that the- 
best libation to his country is the sacrifice of a womax to hide his accursed 
appetites. Believing that no real A.mesican or honest ma;-.", is an accom- 
plice of this MORAL AssAs?iN, Ned Buntline, and believing that the bright 
bow of liberty, began in heaven and encompassing our glorious Union, 
may include the children of every clime and color beneath the arch of its 
promise and the glory of its protection, I, for one, am rcad\- to lay down 
my life for the preservation of a boon, the most valuable a human being 
can receive. ^ 

FOKKIGNISM vs AMERICANLSxM AND NK!). 

Patriotism is the last rifvge of lids icnndr'cl. 

Tiiis champion of \irtue, this knight-errant of the press, solemnly elected 
by the virtue of his own conceit, has displayed but little lofiiness of soul 
but little dignity of design, and the very smallest ability at that Like his 
progenitor, Sancho Paiiza, he has been tossed in tlie blankft of ridicule, 
scorn, and contempt, by the brethren of the press of New York, and other 
cities where he is knov:n. Jn his one-idea philanthropy, namely, to become 
notorious and get money, he elected himself Generalissimo of the .Pi'ative 
p-!;r.'y against the forei-jner, and instead of uplifting his jirosv len in de- 
fence of something that would dignify human nature, and pour oil and honey 
on the wounds of our common humanity, and therefore earn the title of pro- 
tector and adviser of all men made in the image of the Deltv, he has done 
his best to arm man again.-^t his fellows, to the promotion of homicide and 



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all other hateful and deplorable passions. Let us now ascertain how far 
his ACTIONS and conduct to Americans purport with his public profes- 
sions. The way to know a man's character is, in private, away from the 
public eye. 

While he has been dilaling upon his hatred of English, Irish, Scotch, 
French and Dutch, calling them vipers, beggars, felons, ruffians, &c. &c , 
and wishing they were all whipt at the cart's-tail, and sent back to Europe, 
• yet was he indebted for his very clothing, food, and his elevation from the 
most debasing destitution, to an English family ! What must have been 
the moral and phj'sical degradation of a creature, who, in December, 
1847, offered to marry even prostitutes, if they would keep him ! What a 
sink of ingratitude and heartlessness this pimp is, who, in 1S47, left his 
board, in Boston unpaid, and defrauded some half-dozen individuals of 
their money ! Yes, reader, this American moral reformer obtained money 
to the amount of hundreds of dollars, from a Mr. Paul, of Boston, and 
when the poor man requested payment, N«d exposed or threatened to 
expose him in Iiis obscene work ! And further, this native moralist, after 
seducing Marie Gordon, of Boston, brought her to New York, in 1847, and 
kept her in a house at the corner of Washington and Morris streets, and 
deserted her, leaving the board to pay for. The7i he offered marriage to 
two sisters in Brooklyn, of the names of 'I'rusells, both at the same time, 
though each was unaware of that fact, and both discovered the cloven foot, 
and rejected him. Next he off'ered himself to a Miss Moses, a Jewess, and 
offered to become a Jew, but no, she, too, rejected him. Next Miss Mary 
Ellard gave him the "mitten," and our hero, defeated at every move, blank- 
eted it with several prostitutes at places easily named, did I wish to make 
his obscene sheet my exemplar. Enough ! even prostitutes declare they 
could not enduie his filthiness! 

in January, 1S49, this American patriot! dismissed from his employ, 
at a moment's notice a young Native ..flmericnn, despite my own and Mr. 
Bennett's solicitation to the contrary, and to justify his unjustifiable conduct 
in so doing, he spread a report about that the young J^ative .flmerican was 
a thief! Yes, he spread such a report by inuendo, sly, venemous conver- 
sations, and other malicious modes of gratifying his hate, as completely 
destroyed the poor fellow's chance of obtaining employment. Unaware 
from whom the report emanated, and starvii^ in consequence, he implored 
Ned's assistance to return to liis native state, Baltimore, Aid., but Xed 
spurned him, and I advised him to solicit Mr. BiAnett, who generously 
gave him the money out of his own pocket. Such is a fair specimen of 
Ned's conduct to all in his employ. A reporter, well and favorably known 
to the press, was also in Kc(Cs employ at that moment, whom JVerZ 
described as '■Kinoliier d — d thief, whom he trusted no further than he 
could throw him." 

This young man also, is a Native American, yet Ned at that time 
gave him but little to do, because, as he observed, "He iiaa his private 
history written out, and he should make him do just what he pleased and 
how, or he would exi'ose him." Both these men are doubtless innocent, 
at least J^ed never charged them to their faces. Such is his practical every 
day conduct to Native American Men ! Should any person wsish to 
know how he deports himself to American women, then inquire of his 
own mother, sister, Seberina Marrin, Mrs. Porterfield, Lucy Ellard, iMarie 
Gordon, Dora Janes, Jlmelia — Mistress Judson ! Mary C. Thompson, the 
News-vender's wife, and the present wife who sues for a divorce. Enquire 
of all these and a score more that could be named. Enquire at every 



eight brothels out of twelve in the city, and all, all will alike reply. Let 
testering graves, broken vows, pretended marriages, ruthless seductions, 
vfithered hearts, and bad diseases, reply to the query how he treats Ameri- 
can ■women. Man, or woman, wife, parent, or employee, that was ever 
fairly brought into contact with this cruel, cowardly, and revengeful 
wretch, who ever afterwards called him friend ? If any do call him so 
after that test, I should like to know the individual 

Ned boasts that his pretended Xativeism has filled his pockets. Felici- 
tous hit! that unites nativeism and profit! Happy Ned, who makes the 
"brethren" shell out, pockets the ^'tin" walks from the " Lodge " to a 
brothel, winks his eye in derision of the hretkrens^ simplicity, ,and has a 
glorious laugh with the girls therein, at his "doing the trick." Glorious 
address that has enabled Ned to stuff the '-brethren of the Order" up to 
-his own liking, as if thej- were Christmas geese, to be plucked at conve- 
nience I Lucky shepherd, who has made pets of these " Orders," and to 
draw the public eye from his own villainy, calls its attention to their 
gambols. Incomparable schemer, who can parade these sheep when he , 
needs to hear their bleat! What are the Edwards, Hares, Murrills, and 
other black legs of society, compared to .Vet/.' Mere spooneys in the art 
of humbug and crime. , Doubtless they envy him ! 

After defaming and discharging the poor young native American, and 
traducing the character of the reporter then with him ; by the by, did 
that reporter but know how Ned has made his name a handle for malice, 
how Ned makes his character bleed at every pore, he could not but bless 
that nativeism that stabs its own friends first and w-orst. Ned was at that 
period allowing me a weekly salary of $5, for sub editing his sheet, he 
knowing I could obtain no other employment in consequence of calumnies 
issued by himself against me, and he proposed I should also take the 
clerk's business and duty, with the understanding I should have also 
his salary. The articles I wrote for the paper, Ned declared, before 
witnesses, were worth $10 each; yet I wrote several weekly, corrected 
proofs, re-wrote correspondence, kept his books, looked after the shop, made 
up his parcels, mailed his papers, attended to the retail business from 
early morn to often twelve at night ; in short I toiled through w^nd and 
rain, through frost and snow, worked with the head and the hand- 
yea, and Sundays too I and till this day, namely, the 23d of August, I 
have not received one cent more than $5 a week from Dec. ]848to Aiay 
iSiO!!! When I left his employ after six months' service, I was literally 
in debt to Mr. Bennett $30 on my wife's account. 

Now, employers of sempstresses ! now, honest tradesmen, and all men. 
of business, produce your ledgers, and match, if you can, the unparalleled 
meanness of this heartless hypocrite, who has libelled every one of you ! 
This native, w'ho hates foreigners, employs only foreigners and starves 
them; whilorae he gives forth in his sheet weekly rhapsodies about iiis 
own generous nature ! 

Many parties, who knew my real position VTith Ned, repeatedly advised 
me to leave ; but these parties could not see, that my long service with 
him had so literall}- poverty-striken me, that I knew not how to move ; 
besides, I dreaded for my family's sake, the lies, an unscrupulous rascal 
■with an engine like the press at his command, would utter about me as 
he had done the mothers! As I anticipated, he did attack me in his dagger 
of lath paper when I left him, and assailed me with lies, just as he now 
assails the wife of his bosom. I replied to him as follows- 



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NED DINTL'.:;E v^. THOS. at 1 ESC iN. 

Neil Biintlire !in> lurtwo montlis past been ensragcd wiih sly, dissembling an, circulating 
in.Mnnatidn-i, co\v:iri:iyini?rci-reseiilaiions ard malicious lies, lot no earthly purpose tiian to 
injiiie lily ch:n jlI.'i anl leprii'e me of bread ! Ves, for two monllis lie has in the moit ma:i- 
fit/ iiiaurier, fwlnn I if / /mh',, cast on me every kind ol aspersion and vilification, and no«' 
huilb !ii^ "da^-yer ul latli" tiinnigh ihe columns of his paper. In an article aptly termed a 
" Dfcaiii," last Week, he mumbled forth his charges ihii> : iirsl, he is a '■ Scotchman," sec- 
ond, "being poor;" tiiirdlv, "seeking employment, where I could to support ray family ;" 
and lastly/l'or lieinj ' ungiatelul." Now, \vhat liave the public to do wilh these trifles'! 
Why shciiid '■ Ac 1" persecute me froiupt'st lo pillar thus l 1 plead gulitylo being "scotch" 

to bciii,' iiiiMT.il'lv "poor" — to "seeking employment where lean," but deny tlie lerm 

of "«,vo-r,;.v.'v,/, ' i,j liim. 1 never received a fivor lioni "Med" that /did noi by labor re- 
pay ten limes ovf^r, und ere long I will corrvinci- i!n' i-ii'.lic hr.i he is in my debt. 

A^ my privaii' and public cliarnctor i> iiii:;».-:' ihii !»■ i y z\:y mortal man, il'ihe truth onli/ 
isspoken, \> h::i can '' iS'ed's" public aiul privi:ii- a:i,nl,N upon me mesn but the gratilica- 
lion of dark revenge, se!ti.-li pncle, cruelty and cowardice— .nd its ultimate aim lo dep e 
me of employmeiii and bread ! Is it tl e jegitimuie object of a " R.EKosiit:it" \.n trample on 
the crushed !---t.> exult over the prnslraie 1— to sneer at my birthplaite or my poverty ? The 
murderer and thief are called criminals, butaie cruelly, injustice, and malevolence not 
crimes 1 Is the slabber of jeputaiion less guilty than the stabber of persons 1 Then, what 
a base criminal is he who dresses himselt in the "garb of decency" to more plausibly woik 
out a iien'lifh end] 

Byion truly said, -'Noman was a hero before his valet." My intimacy with "Ned" tonj; 
since dispelled all allusion \vi:h regard lo Idm. 1 know wi-ll the latent springs that actuate 
his heait, and m'oves his blazon' d erfrc.nu-iy, wiiatever sliape that assumes. ' JN'ed/ceA- that 
I knnw the chequered lldng he :^ ,;iid I •: 1- thai I knou liim i" be a iiimsey tiickster, and 
lhis/.7c/! eats into his heari---:i , ■, i,,i oc i in'oit, when lie ^iTeCs indifference, or when a 
ghastly smile dickers on his 1 ;;-, 

A word on the cause of my l-a viOL' i ji^lr.nd, whi. h ' Ned" now tries to distort, rilrhuugh 
when in his employ, he f role->^cd lu adnjiie and ;.ppluiiil. For many \e,ir-. in Ln;>l.ind, a 
struggle had existed among all clause- ul' dis-enters toubtsin the ui.iesiraii.ed " kioht of 
PRiViTK juDUMKNT." Circun.siancP- Uiorc tliau mei it, made me a prominent advocate of 
this right, in the advocacy, 1 v,.T5 the supjecl of the most fierce persecution and prosecu- 
tion, both by the Government and llie Lhi.rch of England. My type, stock, personal and 
other properly was seized; myself arrested, and suflered three long and dreary imprison- 
ments ; my friends, both men an i nomen, were incarcerated at the same lime; yet, never- 
theless, banded in the firmest unity, we all hut conquered fhnt lieedom, wiihout which all 
other freedoms ar^ vain, and 1 received the thanks of thousands of lovers of freedom lii;e 
the I'ilgrim Fathers, at its termination. I candidly admit the fact, these persecutions and 
seizures ultimately compelled me to seek some more hospitable shore — and America, land 
of my earliest dreams, was th.; one on which, poor, friendless and powerless, I landed. 
Why should I be stigmalized more 'han the early pilgrims for fleeing from persecution' 
And " Ned," crowing over .some futuae obtained by wife hunting, meets me with the epi- 
thet of " poor devil I ' Ceiiaihly I am poor, rascally poor, and can only cor.ceive of one 
other poverty moie deplorable ihaii niioe — that povvki'V of ^FiniT wnicii av a nvE.N'TiTinus 
iMi'OKTANcE oprris DF.v Ri.o :■.-■.< . !i i-; id'sucli leavcs '■ iNel's" clianltt is wove— of such vic- 
tories his heroism is maiie. 

I have nccer injured «' Ned." I was Hta-.vi.nf; in his employ, and I wi-shed to obtain oth- 
er employment 10 support a sick wile and I'amiij'— he refusidto allow me an additional sal- 
ary, or to work lor others while with him. He attacked and vilified my countrymen. I 
■u'ished to reply— he refused ; and drerjding mc— for " Ned" is small, infinitely small even 
in Ills ii.-iagined greatness — slandered me. Sfange, that no intercourse' wilh him but ends 
in inlamy, violence and abuse— strange lie never made a real fiiend? But the music of 
pure liuman sympathy has no charm lor him — like a ir.aggot in a nut, he grows gross on 
the panderings to his ranHy. 

1 will not imitate the creature, wh-ise doings form the subject of this exposure, by balking 
of myself; suffice it that I hold printed and irri/tm testimonials of my private cliarac«er 
and public conduct, and vj these, and my conduct liere, am 1 willing to be judged; but I 
never intend lo be literally crushed or stand by and see o//iers crushed bysucli a base coun- 
terfeiter as Ned Buntline.' I should think little' of myself could I not do something to slay 
the cankering scoundielisni, and provincial scandal of the reformer par excellence. He 
shall yet find me a firm opponent ot ins accused, because hypocritic, nationality, prejudice, 
and narrow sightcdness. As a loul mouthed demagogue, as a public disturber, as a hawk- 
erof small grievances, detailed in ^lip-s|i>;i language, and for the worst of purposes, a.s a 
mendicant venalv pandering to !.-a! aMiav, he is ruined in public estrmalion, and must 
■confine hencefoith much o! his hn' nature to his darling brothels. 



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NED'S YACHT LAUNCH L]D. 

Tkr. Tempest in a Tea-pot. 

This great event which was to have set the Hudson on fire, was the most 
signal I'ailiiro ever happened to a vain turkeycock in these parts. All his 
false pretensions to an importance ho never possessed were soeu through like 
a tattered robe. Not o.ne gentleman of the press went to pay homage to 
the Ost(ntatious Babbler, who had built this yacht for that purpose. And, 
oh! how laughable to see and hear the niewings of this Bastard Kitten dX 
the disappointment ! Ah ! I nearly forgot, Mr. Tobin was on board, Par 
.Yo'iile Frairum. Doubtless this fraternal pair played some fantastic tricks 
before high heaven that day ; but as they a'int recorded, no brilliant imagi- 
nation is needed to guess at some of them. They were .sure both to get 
drunk. " Sure such a pair were never seen." 

The next that was heard of A'crf and the Yacht was from the papers, and 
here it is : 

NED BUNTLINK— THE PIRATF, OF THE HUDSON. 

" I al'vays prophcsicil sooner or later ihe career of ihis creature would be known. Be- 
hnlii today the fact. NeJ is already a wanderer on ihe face of the earth, or rather wa- 
ter, aii:l that loo in consequence of the discovery of his vices by fiis own latnily ! His 
own fjtiier ! His own wife! Hi.s own relations have at length awakened to the dam- 
nable hypocrisy of this fiend, and atio'.her family'.s peace is broken ; another youns; wo- 
in.in's alfectlons are lacerated ; another victim to the heartlessness of the libertine swells 
our weekly calendar ! Warrants are out for his apprehension; and lo ! and behold ! the 
use of his yacht— bought out of his young wife's money, a;iu a gullible public. On Sun- 
day moinin.; Officer Evans and four picked stars, started for Bull's Ferry to apprehend the 
blustering refo'mer '. and they succeeded, but he persuaded them on board liis yacht, on * 
the ptelLsice of coming to New York, but he kept them on the Jersey side, and with a 
Cle^v of twelve men, armed with revolvers and bowie knives, so frightened the officers 
tliat they were willingly set on shore at •' Fort Hamilton," and slung back to town wilh- 
o;it their prisoner ? So this moralist has become an open dclier of the law — an insulter 
of public authority !" 

NED BUNTLINE. 

" Vice is a monster of such hideous mien. 
That 10 be healed needs but lo bfe seen." 

" The bubble has burst. The most rascally iinpnsilion the world ever saw — the most 
syslematic and villanous hypocrisy ever recorded in the annals of infamy, is at length 
e.\posed. " Ned Buntline," who, a few months ago, flushed with the gains of a sUatagetic 
ma-tiage, bur.st upon the city as the ' Gke,\t riEFoiiMKii," and, by numbers of block- 
heads, was believed as such, to-day " linds no one .so mean as do him reverence ?" — 
His rhapsodies, ravings, and babbling nonsense fall dead upon the ears of the most drivel- 
ling, even of the press. 

••• I have endeavored repeatedly to portray " Ned's" real character, not as some imagi- 
ned, for spite, or hatred, forNed never, in my eslimat'on, came up lo the dignity of my ha- 
tred, but simply because it was my duly to unmask a hypocrite, particulaily il that hypo- • 
crite was a public " Teach-r of Morality " I had no object or desire but to \m\\ the screen 
from successful knavery and heartless chicane. I simply discharged a peremptory, though 
disgusting and painlul duly in drawing altenlion lo this wretched being, and am no more 
to be blamed for the necessary exposure than the sun should be blamed for the stench aris- 
ing from his rays upon putrid sub.stances. 

' The wonder is. not thit ' Ned' should now be found out, but that anybody could be so 
shallow .as ever to have l)een taken in by him His alfeclations of peculiarities and eccen. 
Iricilies of bombast I never mistook for genius — while Ibe way he obtained money, pre. 
vented him from being my golden idol. Though dies.scd and strutting in Ihe gaudy plum- 
age ol the crow, be ■■vas known by the shrewd lo be simply " jEsop's Crow !" j From the 
time be was charged with the seduction of I'mterlield's wife, and murdered her husband, 
until an mdignant and outraged commuai'y allcmpkvd to give his ttxtaae to tiie "/avtls 



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of the air," — diiriiio; his vavions and compliraled career in Pliiladelphia, Boston, &c., 
until his arrival in New Yoik, — from the (icalh of his first wife, v\hich was too slow lo 
be called murder, until the happy trick of his second marriage, 1 have had my eyes upon 
him, and can truly say, tliat moral desolation tracks his progress, tears and curses are 
the ultimate of his friendship. 

" What a caricature on the New Yoik press has been " Ned's career !"' H's career for 
twelve months is nothing but a string of fornications, adulteries, and debaucheiies, npon 
which his yonng wife now sues for a divorce, and revelling in oyster cellars, saloons, bro- 
thels, and gambling houses, for which his father now withdraws his bail-bonds. Yes; 
" Ned" seems to have travelled through every sign of the immoral Zodiac, frnni his attack 
upon female ])urityand retired loveliness, until his apinel.ension as leader of the rioters at 
the A^lor Opera House — from his kejit mi>lress lo his dcfubtfnlly oblaiiieil yacht — from 
his congregation of boys and vagabonds therein, to his deliance of the law at Fort Ham- 
ilton — there seems to have been a steady step, and an appetite keen as a shark's. What 
a soil for the flowers of virtue ! ft is not too much lo say, that " Ned's" career has put 
back the work of moral and personal reform for yeais 

" Startling as is this faithful, though brief catalogue of a " Reformer's" predilections, 
hideous as is this picture of this pattern moralist, well-grounded fears are entertained of 
yet more revolting diableries, now tiiat the veil is lorn from his vices, and the wretch shel- 
tered in his yacht from the terrors of the law. It is said by those who knew him well 
that " I'lracy is his natural bent," Ned certainly has all the qualifications; is avaricious, 
blood-thiristy, cunning, and savage-looking. He t^oasls that his hand is against every man 
and that he "never forgave any enemy;" he certainly never made a friend. By the 
fruits you may know the tree. In the meantime fy» paper is rapidly falling ofr.,_lt went 
up like a rocket, and i,s now dovrn like a stick. The profits now will neither support 
mistresses nor bastards, yachts nor carriages, nor even the weekly bribes to keeji these 
matters in iheriark, ''Ned" is now dethroned, the cloven foot is discovered, he is a bye- 
word and a disgrace, and shortly in a public court w-ill his private character be handled, 
9 Good bye to the " Fool's-pence" upon which he has lately fattened. Printers, publish- 
ers, landlords, and shop-boys, (for Ned never gave wages enough for men) look out fbr 
your "own" lest you be like the foolish virgins, who delayed until it was too late," 

ARRIVAL OF NED BUNTLINE— WARM RECEPTION. 

"The celebrated Ned Buntline, whose fame has extended quite to the bounds of our glo- 
rious republic, reached this city on Tuesday in his yacht, in company wiih a tew friends. 
Upon landms: he proceeded to Guy's famous drinking htnse, in Sicvenih-Mreet, above Ches- 
nut, and ttiere announced himself Ned Buniline, much afler ibis f3>hion — " Gentlcnwn," 
said he, " I am Buntline, and il'anv body wants to see me particulaily, why, you may jn.'.t 
say that I'm here." Ned now called some persons to the bar to tajie a drink vviili him, 
wliich ihey did. About this time another" Ned" walked in at the door iiilh a big slick in 
his han-.i, and did not slop until he had got immediately in front of the hero of two wars, 
(one somewhere in ihe VVest, the oiherin Broadway )and accosted him wiih — " Are you 
Ked Buntline !" " Yes," said Ned, " that's my soubriquet," " But aie you ,>-ure that you 
are Buniline !" said ihe otlier Ned. " No mistake about it," was the reply. "Well, then, 
J'm g'ling to whip you ;" and .suiting the action to the word, Ned No. 2, having ascertained 
tliat_the hero ol two wars had no deadly weapons about him, proceeded to cudjiel him in fine 
style, ever and anon pulling his whiskers and moustache, and spiuing in his (aee. Bunt- 
line made little resislance, (or he found be got into the bands of an ugly cusiurner, and 
Ihougbt no duubt, that the sooner be got out the better. Finally he was kicked out of the 
door, and was taken into ibe drug store at the corner of Seventh and Cheslnut-stieds, to have 
his wounds dressed. We undersiand the reason of Ihi.-i assault to have been a grnss attack 
in the Ciluins of Buntline upon his assailant, in which things were said that no one vi'ith 
manly feelings pould fail to lake notice of. Our New York bretliren vf the press must not 
expect lo escape with a whole skin, if they first malign our citizens, and then come among 
us tj make a boast ol it. Philadelphians are not cowards, thank God ! and it a certain 
other N. Yoik editor had been with Buntline, we laney he'd have shared a little bit worse 
than Ned did. We do not wi.sh to be understood as sancnoning any violations of tbt law, 
ha', there .".re times aoti occasions when the cudgtl may be used lo advantage." 

I clip the above graphic description of the reception of the inoiJern re- 
foj'mer in the Quaker city from the P/iiladelfJila Pclice Gazette. 

1 might here clip largely from the Philadelphia and other papers sliowing 
■what rank cowardice was displayed by this self-styled Maes in his encoun- 



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ter with Mr. McGowan, who is a much smaller man than our red-haired 
Blusterer; but he is spirited, though he says little about it, and after literally 
spitting in Ned's face, he as literally kicked Ned out of the house. This is the 
truth as told me by an eye-witness, who is also an acquaintance of the "Firm 
in the Right Cause" beauty. 

Next comes the last scene of all in the Yacht Comedy, showing that Ned 
has been fitting himself out under false pretences. Ihe Yacht is not nor 
ever was Ned's, so sa)'s Mr. Tracy — Aed says it is — if it is, why did Ned Iry 
to defraud the iroNKST tradesmen who furnished it, as the}' believed lor cash ■? 
If it is not Ned's, then he is a mone\' swindler as well as a scorner of heaven 
and earth — God and man ! 

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT. 

"Ned's Own." — James Dewey vs. Edward Z. C. Judson — Thomas Graham vs. the 
same.— The deiendani in ihi.s case is perhaps beuer known in this community as NcdBunt- 
line, and as the puMisher of a weekly paper of some notoriety. He also claims to be ow- 
ner of a very beauiilul and fast-sailing yauhl, called, as his paper'Ned's Own.' On the I9lh 
of July the yacht in question was lil'ellcd, at the suit of Dewey &Graham, lor supplies fur- 
nished the vessel and crew to the amount of SLlOu, and Ihe Defendant, Judson held lo bail. 
A baker in Hudson siicei, by the name of Billiuss, became his surety, and ihe yacht went on 
her cruise. About a week after adeiault was entered aLd an execution issued, which 
process was put into the hands of deputy marshalls, W. A. Brown, and VV. B. Walsh, who 
took possession of ' Neo's Own,' and caused her to towed to the Atl.Tntic Docks and offered 
forsaie, which sale had been previously duly advertised. Here, however, a new leature 
appeared. -Mr. Tracy, a merchant of this city, put in a claim to the yacht, and produced the 
origiiial bill •f sale to himself, and proved that Judson had never owned any portion of 
the craft, her furniture, tackle, etc.. On the exhibition ol this state of facts, the yacht was 
of course given up to iVlr Tracy, and the other claimants are left to .'^eek redress elsewhere. 
Sis transii gloria Buntline ."' — Sunday. Times. 

The Yacht has again been seized by the various creditors whom Ned had 
hoped to defraud; let these creditors tear in mind that Rlr. Tracy's " bill 
of sale" is a humbug intended to diddle them. 



WIND UP CHAPTER. 

'lo this complexion must we come at last. 

Reader, the printer tells me I must abruptly close this sickening recital. And, 
yet on my table is piled a score of articles from gentlemen of the arm}', navy, 
mercantile world— from inniimerahle parties, of the conduct of this repre- 
sentative of all the vices. Letters and infonnation are arriving from all parts 
of the Union, detailing the tradesmen whom he has swindled — the boarding- 
houses he has diddled — the violences he has attempted — the girls he has 
seduced and then deserted. I am compelled in consequence of the 
crowding of tales and exposures of this exemplar of every virtue, to re-issue 
a new Edition, which will contain sotne most incredible Eevelations and 
astounding Disclosures, furnished by some gentlemen who know Ned well. 
Meanwhde, here is sufficient for one meal to the lovers of the horrible and 
base in human nature. 

I' Let it be understood, Ihe author of this collection is incited by neither 
fear, favor, or reward. He is poor, has no^companions, few friends, and 
belongs to no party. He does not write because Ned is " American or 
FoREiG.N ;" he cares not one cent about birth — he writes because Ned is a 
bud MAN, because he is a disgrace to the press — because he uses his paper 
and his influence to obfuscate moralit}', blight human nature, and trample on 
the week and unprotected. Ned has also tried to crush the author with lies 



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REWARD. 

Is it true or not that Judson, alias "Ned Buntline," did, on or about the 
20th April, 1849, consumate a sham marriage in Jersey city, to a Mary C. 
Thompson, and that a Robert Henshaw officiated as parson for that occasion 
only ! 1 offer a reward of $10 to any one who will within three weeks 
from this date, (21 August) furnish me with the particulars of the above 
unparalleled piece of heartless legerdemain. 

Ned at present is undergoing examination for threatening by letter to 
shoot his father-in-law ; just such a trick as I should suppose him capable of. 

The following is the letter : — 

New York, 9th August, 1849. 

" Thomas Bennett, — Imp ot hell,— Cowardly thieving wretch, does not express one-half 
of the contempt, indignation of an outraged community, for your last hellish, malicious, 
inhuman act. You have thereby forfeited all claims to the re>pect or notice of men, and 
deserve to be treated with more contempt than the meanest thing that crawls the earth, 
which God in his mercy, permits you to inhabit, but of which you shall soon occupy but 
a small space. *»*»»»*»♦ 

"But hark, listen, and tremble, prepare yourself for death. What Ibink you ol that:- 
A mere threat : No ; as sure as tliere is a God, as you are a living thing, yuu shall die. 
Let your hell commence on earth. Calculate not on one moment of your life; for, in an 
unexpected moment it shall be taken Irom you. A bullet shall crash through your brains, 
and you shall be hurled to hell, unless the devil is loo proud to receive you. and in such a 
case, there is probably a place prepared in the un-heard of region. Die the death of a 
cowardly outcast, wietch, loathed by man, and lorsaken by God .' " Vekgence.,' 

That the above letter is written by Judson is sworn to by Mr. T Bennett, 
by Mr. Frank Bennett, by Lieut. Potter, of the 3d 0. S. RegU, of all whom 
declare him to be a bad man. The threatening letter is declared by his 
oWN WIFE to be written by him. 

A scene took place in Court, in connection with the above case, which placed 
the bravery of this bra2:gart Ned in its proper light. Lieutenant I'otter, whose 
valor in the service of liis country none will dispute, when asked what he knew 
of Ned Buntline, unhesitatingly replied " that lie knew Ned to be a rank cowakd, 
an ASSAssi.N, a seducik, and a mubderer." Ned has been told all this before by 
this young man, but he shook and shivered at hearing it again, even in open Court. 
The public must recollect that it was this brave officer's wile Ned tried to defame 
a week or two ago in his obscene sheet. His reasons for calling Ned a coward, 
are, doubtless, the following. Because Ned wrote threatening letters to his fami- 
ly, while this young man was far ofl' witii his regiment — because he cowardly cut 
down John Armstrong at Key West — because Ned was cowhided by C. S. Cooper, 
midshipman — because he cowardly shot Poiterlield at Nashville — because he 
sheltered hiiiiself from a well-desewed thrashing, in this city, between his wife 
and another lady — because Suydam, whose family and himself Ned tried to injure, 
challenged him, and he showed the " wliite feather" — because he has been cow- 
*■ hided in Broadway, kicked by McGowan, of Philadelphia, and spit upon by him- 
self (Lieut. Potlerj — because he cravenly attacks females ! in his paper, like Miss 
Crean, Alice, his wife's sister, and lastly, because he threatens his own wife ! ! I 
Lieut. Potter might well call him assassin, seducer, and murderer — all demon- 
strable froin the cases of Armstrong, Porterfield, Dora Janes, Mary Thompson, 
Ellen Judson, and the six females who claim him in this city as their ' liege lord.' 
As for his intemperance, that is easily proved by calls at Mary Ellens, in Hudson 
Street, at the Ladies' Oyster Saloon, corner of Hudson and Christopher, at Palmo's, 
Pastor's, Kate Ridgeby's Miss Hastings', Cafe-Torioni, Florence's, Bull's Ferry, 
&c. &c. &c. 

Ned's wife has issued a plea of divorce, which Ned tries to misrepresent. He 
says she wishes a divorce because he is American. Reader, it is an unfounded base 
lie ! She, nor her relations care one cent about birth — their tnteresls arc all Ame- 
ritan. She sues for a divorce for these reasons. Because he, on the 24lh of Feb- 



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ruary last, took board for, and seduced Dora Janes, m the house. No. 74 Green 
Street, the girl's ovm and two witnesses affidavits, being part proof — because cf bis 
well-known other adulteries — because of Ned's personal filthy habits, specially 
when drunk — because of his keeping her in constant alarm by talk about fighting 
with gamblers, and telling her he would come home stabbed or shot, and her 
child has a dagger-mark on his breast in consequence- because of his long inter- 
Tiews with doubtful females in a locked room at various times — because he would 
join the Astor House rioters, and leave her sick and alone — because of his brutal- 
ity on the morning of her confinement : she was confined at three in the morning, 
and he went away on a " spree" at five, and never came home for two days — be- 
cause he has threatened to take her " Where the sun never shone, and the devil 
cauldn't Hnd hcr.^^ — because after taking a solemn oath, in writing, in May, in 
these words : " May God strik^ me dead if ever I drink liquor ap:ain for twelve 
Hionlhs," yet came home beastly drunk within two -days thereof — because he has 
publicly attacked herself and sister in his paper — because always threatening to 
■' wade up to the knees in the blood of our foreigners" — because she does not con- 
sider her lather, mother, brother, or her own life safe under the same roof — these, 
and woESE reasons, which delicacy forbids the mention of, together with his gene- 
ral bad conduct, have fixed her determination for an irrevocable divorce. 

As a fitting ^na/e to the above, comes the following racy notice from the Sunday 
Courier : — 

THE FARCE OF THE WEEK. 

" The surrendering of E. Z. C. Judson, by his bail, into the claws of Justice, and his re- 
delivery therefrom — the outrageous dragging of family affairs into the columns of his ob- 
scene paper — and, last and woi.st, the posting of his wile and child about the ciiy in a 
gigantic liandbiU — are the appropriate teiminalion of a miserable farce, enacted by an in- 
sane and wretched man. We pity deeply the poor creature who has utterly lost his reason, 
and venerate the philanthropy thai has exhausted intellect in discovering means for melior- 
ating the condition of the unhappy brotherhood. But there is a species of insanity, the re- 
sult of ruin and licentiousness acting upon a coarse personal vanity, seeking notoriety at 
the espense of everything but personal danger — which powerfully elicits not only our pity 
but our horror. Of such is the ferocious idiocy, the puerile delirium, of this wretched Jud- 
son — a man who has been led by his own depraved instincts through every stage i.,f degra- 
dation, until he can no more rise even to the level of the grog-room and the brothel. Oh, 
where lurks, in the bosom of such a being, the latent germ of goodness that is to grow to a 
purified life amid the ripening toftures of the future, and prove that God has created no one 
evil ? 

Also, the following contribution specially addressed to this diabolical polyglot of 
iniquities, is too good to be omitted : 

"NED'S OWN AND NED'.S RIOT.' 

That revoltingly stupid sheet, which should be called the " Dastard's Own," or " Bawdy 
House Directory,'" has lor some time been the idol of a few blackguards and block- 
heads, the laughter of knaves, and the di-gust of honest men. It is a stupid and prosy con- 
glomeration of lust and perverted depravity, viler than the vilest of similar stupidities; for 
vilcness only " itself can be its parallel." This miasmatic hecatomb of abominations 
and distorted plagiarisms from the most prurient of obscene European productions, is 
penned in such ranting diction— in such malignant fustian anil drowsy rhetoric, that to read 
it is debasement to females, disgust to the wise, nausea to the refined, but just the sheet for 
simpletons, knaves, and wretches, as it gloats upon all the hateful passions, lusts, and 
jealousies that agitate themselves, and, besides, is an admirable weapon or plaything 
for all sorts of rascals. Thank Heaven it is nearly dead. 

" The various phases of Ned's humbuggery, are nowhere better seen than in the lilthiness, 
cowardice, barbarism, and the brutality of his attacks upon the s?x — frum his own mother 
and sister, down to his present wile; in the effeminacy of his dspraved fictions, in his 
easily discovered hypocrisies, and his pestiferous career, which, like a cancer, penetrates, 
corrodes and distempers wherever his influence extends. 

" This rascal selected — strumpet-fondled — cow-hided, ard well thrashed mountebank, 
after leading on the greasy progeny of the five points to attack the Astor Opera House, 
attempts now, with a monstrous cowardice, to fall foul on his poor corn-rogues to 
screen himself 1 I go for lair play, and call upon the due punishment of the well- 
dressed leader of thi.s mournful event, more loudly than that of his poor victims with- 
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EXAMINATION OF JUDSON vs. PATERSON. 

Ned Buntliae and Thomas Warner, appeared for the prosecution. A. J. 
Willard and Mr. Allen for the defence. 

Examination before Justice McGrath of Thomas V. Faterson, on the 5th 
and 6th of September, 1849, for a Libel on E. Z. C. Judson, alias " Ned 
Buntline,'' and entitled ■'■■{ 

" The Private Lite, Public Career, ami Real Character of that Odious Rascal, Ned 
Buntline, as deTeloped by his conduct to his Past Wife, Present Wife, and his various 
Paramours 1 Completely iifiing up the veil, and unmasking lo a horror-stricken commu- 
nity his Debaucheries, Seductions, Adulteries, Revelings, Cruellies, Threats, and Alur- 
ders I !" 

I'homas V. Paterson on being called, said that he was born in Scotland, lives at 42 
Henry Street, and has nothing further to say at present on this matter. 

First witness. Thomas Ben.nelt sworn, ileposeth, " That the Paper produced (' Ned's 
Own,') was ediled and published by Jud,*iin." 

The papers referred to weie considered in evider.ce, Imt not read. 

Mr. Warner here insisted that the Defendant should prove the libels in that book, and 
read paragraphs from various pages in the pamphlet charging Judson wilh various offen- 
ces, and wished these and similar statements proved. 

Mr. Willard declared that the Complainant should be more than satisfied wilh the 
proofs. 

Thomas Bennett resumed. " is acquainted wilh Judson, known him for at least 18 
months. Resides No. 16 Abingdon Place. Judson mairied his daughter. He was in- 
troduced by Lieutenant Potter. Judson married into my family about the 20th January, 
1848. He resided at my house after his marriage, until about ten weeks ago. Have 
seen Judson a good many times under the influence of liquor. He used to drink for days 
together. He said he could not write or do business without it. Three month's after 
marriage, he came home drunk. Knew he drank liquors before we had it in the house ; 
he would not drink every day ; he would omit drinking, for a day or two, bramly and 
wine. The first si.K months he was much more leinperate than atlerw.irds. We much 
lamented to see Judson so often under the influence of liquor. We thought him a hope- 
less! case, and that he would be a decided drunkard, t often tried to persuade him to ab- 
stain, but he would send out for a qu irt at a time unknown to m». He kept bad hours. 
After joining the Native Americans, he was iiregular and lale. This was about one year 
ago. There never intervened but a short period between his drinking liquor. Judson 
was sick about a month after marriage. His disease was a swelling on each side of his 
groin. It was what is called Po.iL. 1 knew it about two weeks alter his marriage. I 
administered medicine for it. He look inlernally a medicine called " English diet-diink." 
Cannot say how much ho took of his wife's medicine. His wife was sick shorlly after 
Judson's sickness. He used sugar of lead for a wash — and hops — he was leeched also, 
f got 1 he medicines at an Apothecary's. Judson's disease continued about two months. 
The disease afftcled the baby. It is somewhat afiecled now ! ! 

Cross-Kkami.nkd f:r Ji'Dson. — I had connection with Judson's paper, called " Ned's 
Own." which ended after the o6lh number ; the paper began sometime in July, 1848 ; was 
publislwd weekly; I am bad lo recollect dates; 1 agreed to put Judson into that business, 
to start the paper for him, and to find all the cash I I was lo help to do the out-door 
business, lo keep the cash, and pay all bills in his name ; he had books to sell ; the busi- 
ness was his ; he wished me to become a partner; I declined ; his business prospered un- 
til 1 lelt it; I believe f did receive a Utile of the profits ; I spent a great deal of money in 
his business of which I kept no account; I rendi:red, however, an account of all 1 receiv- 
ed ; Judson sold his copyrights to me as security for any losses I might sustain in his 
business; 1 e.xpended receipts under Judson's advice ; deducted some for board for him 
and wife; I took part ot ihe advanced money to pay my own debts; cannot tell exact 
amount without referring to my books : believe his board is paid for up to the time of his 
wife's confinement ; I am security for him, and keep the copyrights as an indemnification ;. 
the first time I saw hiin worse for liquor was about from three to five months after he 
was married; he was very drunk — so drunk he could not raise his head ; he vomited 
over the floor ; it was in the evening ; cannot say bow long before 1 saw him under the 



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influence of liquor ; it was a continual tiling with him ; between September and January 
las;, I saw him many times iiniier the Influence of liquor; when 1 saw him in this state, 
he cnuld not talk plainly ; 1 have let him into the house very late at nights, uu'ler the in- 
flicnce of liquor; I had a light, and could .=ee by his motions he was tipsy ; Ned set a 
Temperance table on la«t Npw Year's day ; we keep liquor in the house, which he us€d 
vrhen he saw fit ; I ilrlnic when I require it ; 1 surrendered Judson about six weeks ago ; 
1 was his bail, and gave him up ; 1 never quarreled with him ; I had some dilFercnce with 
him when he came home late, and we were sitting up for him ; I told him we could not 
stand it any longer; we were afraid gamblers or others had killed him ; his wife was not 
willing to meet •him tha' night; I told him he was destroying ih^ peace of my family ; he 
was in a passion ; he went into fits; his wife told me to come and forgive him ; 1 did so. 
About three weeks after his wife was conflned, I diil not wish him to live with my daugh- 
tei any longer ; I remonstrated with him till 1 was tired ; he drank in the house frequently 
in the presence of his own wife and my family; these were iiot the times I saw him un- 
der the influence of liquor. 

I have had two of the pamphlets complained of. I have read the pamphlet. I have 
not had more than two. Never mailed or di.'^iributed any of them. Within six mouths 
I gave Ned up as hopeless. 1 did not pay Ned's debts before he was married. I gave 
him S'io for his wedding tour. I saw the swellings on his groins ; they were large : saw 
them about a month after marriage; saw them about two weeks after that again. He 
■was leeched ; 1 had no conversation as to ihe cause Judson said the cause was a cold ! 
I have some knowledge of the venereal di.sease. I administered medicine for it. Gave 
him purifying medicines, such as is used for other purposes also. A medical gentleman 
was called on. It was Dr. Watson of Fourth Street ; medicine was prescribed by him. 
The child had not been attended by medical men, but the nurse, whose name is Bessy, 
perceived discharge from it. The child is healthy : there was a discharge or breaking 
out on the foieheail, and some soreness in the eyes. The first month the dischari^e was 
from the private parts. Judson brought testimonials when he came to me The testi- 
monials were not very full : the references were not satisfactory, hut I was overruled by 
my family. I assisted him in business after the marriage, but lately made up my mind 
to assist my daughter in obtaining a divorce from him ; 1 know of none but my own 
family who saw him drunk : I have threatened that if he broke into my house that I 
■would shoot him : 1 have no idea of trying to break him down ; I never had any difficulty 
with him about ' Native Americans," but told him that he was doing his best to destroy 
the Republic. Understand that he belongs to several " Orders," and that he has kept 
very late hours since he joined them. Paterson was with Ned part of the time: I gave 
him a book : Judson gave him no clothing: I am liable for some unsettled debts of Jud- 
son's to the amount of .S900 to $'2000, for which I hold the copyrights as securily. 

Justin Dominick sworn. Is a bar-keeper at Palmo's, in Broadway : knows Judson and 
has seen him at Palmo's saloon : can't say when he first saw hiai : he came to the bar and 
drank somethi:ig with friends: has known him to drink wine, sar.=:aparilla, and brandy: 
sometimes two or three times a day : sometimes once m two o, I'l-.-e weeks. 

Cross-E.-caniined. Have only been with Palnio about s.. [!■.-: can't say I have 

seen him drunk, or with hi.^ clothes soiled or torn. I cannot ~ ' -iine to Palmo's, 

and 1 never followed to see whether he was drunk or not. 

Samuel Suydam sworn. Says he is acquainted with J udscu , '- j ; ears. In that 

period saw him drink liquor, often in September, 1848. Judson was almost always 
drunk when I saw him. 1 do not know that I ever saw him sober till to-day. I have seen 
him drunk in grogshops and gambling saloons. He represented himself an advocate of 
temperance generally. I saw him lending upon the bank at a game of faro. He was 
alongside of the dealer, a place only occupied by one interested in the bank. He did not 
stay long after [ went into the place — it was at No. 3 Park Row. This took place the 
day KATE HASTINGS cow-hided Ned. I know Jadson's character for veracity, ft 
stands below par — it is very bad. 1 would not believe Judson on OATH wliere he is in- 
terested. Knows Judson's hand-writing. (At this juncture a writing of an oath never to 
taste liquor, by Judson, was shown to the witness, which Suydam believed to be Judson's 
hand-writmg ) 

Paterson's counsel ofTered to read the paper, but Judson's counsel objected. 

Cross-Examined. Judson's character fir truth is very bad — has heard more than 
twenty speak so of him. Has heard Lieutenant Potter speak so of his character. Lieut. 
Mead said Judson was a ruffian, a scoundrel, and a very untruthful character. I cannol 
hink of other names now." 



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" Yes. I recollect J. J. Bryant spoke of him within a year. Poller is related lo Jud- 
son. 1 have iieard Lieulenant Potior speak disrespectfully of Judson — should consider 
that he was unfriendly to Judson. Lieutenant Mead 1 have heard sjicak in similar 
tirms of Judson — have heard Mr. Van Eansalaer speak of Judson disrespectfully. Has 
heard Bryant speak of Judson for six months — Bryant is not a gambler. I do not think 
Judson knows Bryant. Do not know that Mr. Van Eansalaer is a player — he has 
played." 

Some arguments here occurred as lo Mi. Suydam's private aflairs, between Mr. War- 
ner on one side, and Mr. Holmes on the other, but had no reference to the case. 

E.vaminalion resumed. " I live at No. 8 Barclay Slieet. It is a private house — havs 
also lived at 14 Barclay Street — have lived also at the Aster House three or four years. 
I have played at the Aster House and olher places, various games, whist, hide-and-go- 
seek, with the la-jies, &c. Mr. Jud.son publi.->hed some violent lies about me, and f have 
been unfriendly. I was going to shoot Jud.son, and was brought to the Police Office, and 
put under bonds. JudSon threatened to post me, and-I posted myself opposite his ofHce, 
and lold him if be did I would shoot him. He has published me in his paper. Judson 
was COVVHIDED in March or April, 1849. Will not be positive. I saw Judson drunk 
between Soptember and January. Cannot say the last time 1 saw him drunk before 
Ka'e Hastings flogged him, but think about a month. Between January and the cow- 
hiding,.! saw hini drunk a half a dozen times. I think I spoke to him twice on these 
occasions. It was in the daytime I saw him go into grog-shops. I may and 1 may not 
have .seen Judson sober. Judson and 1 went from the FARO-BAhK together — he was 
there first. V/e remained there live minutes. He was silling on a chair in the Gaming 
Room v/hcn I went in. I spoke to him, and he rose. JuiLson was engaged at a Faro- 
bank. He was silting alongside of the Dealer, watching the progress of the game. We 
were not on good terms — quite the contrary. We stood and talked about five minutes. 
I have a firm belief that Judson had an interest in the bank, beyond the fact of seeing 
him in the seat occupied by a person interested. I have seen an affidavit proving that 
Judsoii had put up money in the bank. Judson called once on nie half drunk, and I 
would not listen to him about any letter or other business. 1 told him my house was no 
place for visits from him. Judson replied, but do not recollect what he said — the object 
of his visit I do not think was to gamble." Mr. Suydam's evidence concluded. 

Theodore F. Strong. Resides in Williamsburgh. Is acquainted with Judson for some 
little time — has known Judson to drink freely, but never seen him so hut he could walk. 
Have seen him when he had more drink than / could carry. I have not been in his com- 
pany more than four or five times, when I could say he had been drinking. Never drunk 
myself. When he was drinking he was more lively and talkative than new, his eyes were 
sleepy, he could walk pretty straight ; have seen him pretty tipsy twice. I have seen 
him when there was plenty of liquor, and he did not drink — it was on board his yatch. 
All this has occurred since the Astor House Riot. I knew but little of him before that 
period. There may have been other causes for his being merry, at times, besides drink ; 
but as he had been drinking, I supposed that to be the cause ; I have seen him drink two 
or three glasses in an hour. Supposed them to be brandy. I meet him about twice a 
week since I knew him. I was bail for him. I surrendered him yesterday. One man 
spoke to me some two months ago to surrender him, but I refused. I surrendered him 
yesterday of my own accord. I am on good terms with Judson on my part. If his honor 

will allow me, I will prove hy facts that Judson ' 

,Mr. Juuson's counsfl objected lo Mr. Strong finishing the sentence, which had refer- 
ence to the reasons u'Ay he surrendered Judson. 

Resumed. " Mr. Judson never refused to lend me money. I did not surrender Jud- 
son although he injured me in business. Mr. Judson prevented me forming a partnership 
in a business ; hut that was not the reason I surrendered Judson." 

Mr. Strong ofi'ered to slate again uhy he gave up bail for Jiulson ; but Mr. Judson had 
good reasons for not wishing Ihe Court to hear Mr. Strong, and the case was adjourned 
lo the 24th of the month. Gn the 24lh Mr. Judson came inio Couit, and begged for the 
second lime a further adjournment, which was granted by the Court, much against the 
desires and wishes of Mr. Patersoii and Counsel, who had their witnesses in perfect 
readiness to proceed. 



57 

OPLNIONS OF THE PRESS RESPECTING NED'S CHARAC- 
TER, POSITION, AND THIS PAMPHLET. 

LIBELLOUS PAPER. 

The walls and places of the city that aiH> favored by the attention of bill 
stickers, have bad unusual and rather slartlins; interest given to them lately 
by the display of a placard, upon which was announced in enormous capitals, 
insinuating italics, and dramatic exclamation points, " The private life, 
public career, and real charapter of that odious rascal, Ned Buntline," &c., 
iJic. This precious tiling is written by a gentleman wlio seems to have had 
ample means of picking up many pleasant, piquant particulars relative to his 
hero's manner of life. The biograplier was in the biographed's emploj- as as- 
sistant editor, to that fiercely moral and not dete':tai)le sheet, with the sicken- 
ingly egotistical name of " Ned Biintline's Own." In addition to the labor of 
assistant editor, Mr. Buntline's "biographer" re-wrote correspondence, kept 
the books, looked after the shop, made up the parcels, mailed the papers, 
attended to the retail business from early morn to often twelve at night, 
" In short,'' says he, " 1 toiled through wind and rain, through frost vnd snow, 
worked head and hand — yea, and Sundays too ! and till this day have not 
received more than five dollars a week from Dec. 1848 to May 1S4-9." So 
much work and so little pay should be an excuse for the dullness of the 
" life." But whatever else it may lack, it will be found not to be wanting 
in a knowledge and a use of vituperation, that evince an experienced and 
Well practised hand. — Metropolis. 

We are right glad to see the law put in full force against such Evil Doers 
as Judson — lenient though that law is in his case. If ten years imprison- 
ment in the States Prison could have been intlicted in varying doses on Judson 
and his associates instead of a year and its fractions — there would have been 
some adequacy in the punishment. As it is, we are rejoiced that the sen- 
tenced have been sent up to their respective places of confinement, and that 
no marks of favor, and no exemption from the dress and treatment of con- 
victs will be given to these wicked and disorderly men. — Broohlyn Star. 

Ned Buntline a Prosecutor. — Ned Buntline tias at length become a pros- 
ecutor, and has instituted proceedings against the publisher of his life, or a 
sketch of his life, charging him with libel ! We have had an opportunity 
to glance at this work, but can pronounce it, at first sight, a rich specimen 
of biography. Ned's numerous " hair breadth 'scapes in the imminent 
deadly breach," seem to be most graphically given, while his love ad- 
ventures form a considerable portion of the work. The idea, though, of 
Buntline's prosecuting for libel is exceedingly^ rich. It can only be likened 
to the rogue \vh% upon being caught foul, cries out "Stop thief!' in the 
hope of diverting public attention frornhhnself. — Philidelphia Police Gazette. 

We give in another department of this paper further proceedings had in 
court, on the infamy and morals of Ned Buntline. It is a report of the pro- 
ceedings, as, far as we can publish them, which took place in the divorce 
recently granted by the court between him and his unfortunate wife. We also 
annex some extracts of h\a previous career in Nashville, Tennessee, taken 
from a pamphlet recently published in this city, by T. V. Paterson, No. 
21G Fulton street, disclosing other atrocious and bloody acts of that infamous 
man, who appears to be, in some respects, almost the bi'au ideal of the new 
order of society projected by the socialists of this city. By these we learn, 



58 

ina few words, that Buntline has gone through, in the brief space of six or 
eight years, a career of blood, murder, seduction, adultery, brutality, riot, 
and nearly every other crime and offence of which dearaded and perverted 
human nature can be guilty. Here is the hero — the beau ideal — the exquis- 
ite specimen, who is the subject of sympathy of our modern socialists and 
reformers — those socialist philosophers comprehended under the general term 
of the Tribune establishment in New York, who sympathise, pity, and take- 
part, as much as possible, with all knaves, ruffians, and convicts. 

JV. y. Herald. 



ANOTHER STAR IN THE BRIGHT CONSTELLATION OF 
NED'S VIRTUES. 

THE DIVORCE TRIAL. 

Common Pleas^ — Special -Term. — Before Judge Ingraham. — Annie Judson ag»s 
Edward Z. C. Judson.— Oci 3d, 1849. 

Dora Janes, a witness produced, being sworn, deposed as follows; — I am nine- 
teen years of age; in the first part of February last, I lived at Mrs. Gautier's, a 
respectable private boarding house, No. 41 Clirystie street, in the city of ",New 
York ; I was a straw-sewer when I lived there ; on the 24ih of February last, I 
removed to Miss Fanny White's, 74 Greene street, in the city of New York ; I 
know Edward Z. C. Judson, the editor i}i'" Ned Buntline's Own;" I first knew him 
on the evening of February 24th last : I met him at Miss White's : I lived with 
Miss While, in Greene street, from February 24th until she moved to 33 Mercer 
street, where she now lives ; Mr. Judson was in the habit of visiting me about 
once a week in Greene street ; he paid my board for the first five weeks I was 
there ; he generally came in the evening ; my bed-room was the front room on the 
third floor, and it was there JuJson saw me: he first Ijad connection with me the 
night of the 24lh of February, in the second story back room ; he visited me for 
the purpose of having connection with me, and had connection with me as often 
as once a week, for the first five weeks, that is, in the months of February and 
March, 1849 ; he visited and had connection with me twice after the five weeks I 
have spoken of, but at intervals of two or three weeks ; I have had connection 
with him once since, in Mercer street, about two or three weeks ago ; it was the 
Sunday night belbre his complaint against a Mr. Paterson, at the police ofiice, for 
libel. (Was adjourned.) The last time I had connection with him in Greene 
street, was the last of April or first of May last ; I never had connection with any 
person before Mr. Judson ; the name by which I was known to Mr. Judson, at the 
house of Miss Fanny While, in Greene street, was Dora Janes, and I have gone 
by that name ever since the 24th of February last. 

DORA. JANES. 

Subscribed and sworn to, this 2Sth day of September, 1849, before me, 

ISAAC V. FOWLER, Referee. 

Fanny White, a witness produced, being sworn, deposed as follows: — In the 
month of February last, I lived at 74 Greene street, in the city of New York, and 
moved there in August, 1846, and moved from there to my present residence in Mer- 
cer street, about the tenth of May last. Miss Dora Janes came to board with me 
in the wintei — I think it was in February last — and she remained with me until 1 
moved from Greene street, and went with me to Mercer street; I know Mr. E. Z. 
C. Judson, editor of "Ned Buntlme^s Own ;" I was introduced to him in the winter 
of 1847, on Christmas day ; he called at my house several times during the year 
1848, before he was married ; I remember his calling at my house the first night 
Miss Dora Janes was there; he came there and saw Dora Janes, and asked me 
who she was; I replied she was a poor girl, who could not live by her industry 



59 

ie said he would go and have a talk with her ; I told him there was a vacant room 
jp-slairs, and 1 believe he went wiih her inio the second story back room : he re- 
gained a short time there : lie called at my house a number of times atltr that, 
ip to the time of my removal: he generally called in the evening; Miss Dora 
lanes is the same person who was examined here to-day ; at the lime she was 
.here, a lady, now present, named Mary Yates, boarded with me. 

FANNY WHITE. 

Subscribed and sworn to, this 20ih day of September. 1849,' before rae, 

ISAAC V. FOWLEE. 

Mary Yates, a witness produced, being sworn, deposed as follows: — In the 
Donlhs of February, March, April, and part of May last, I resided at iViiss Fanny 
kVhite's, 74 Greene street, in the city of New York ; during that period. Miss 
[)ora Jaiies, who has been exaii.ined to-day, lived there; she came there about the 
atter part of February last ; I know Edward Z. C. Judson, the editor of " Ned 
Bunlline's Uwn;'' I remetiiber his being at Miss White's the first night Miss Janes 
;ame there ; he first saw her in the back parlor, and afterwards in the second 
itory back room ; it was a bed-room ; they were there alone ; I went to the door i 
t was locked: I heard them inside, and was quite angry to find ihtty had taken 
ny room ; afterwards they unlocked the door; they were undressed, and had been 
n bed ; he apologized for taking my room ; I should think they were in the room 
ibout one hour; the bed was tumbled and disordered, and presented the appear- 
mcc Ti-ry strongly of their having been in it ; it was made up just before they 
ivent in the room; I examined the bed clothes; there were stains of blood on 
bem ; she represented afterwards that she had never had connection with any one 
)efore ; he paid her board about five weeks, at .$10 per week, and during that 
ime visited her once a week, and sometimes twice; I saw him there after lljat; 
le came to see Miss .Janes ; I have seen him there once or twice very much intoxi- 
■ated ; Miss Fanny White is the same person who has been examined here to-day ; 
(diss Janes's bed-room was a third story attic front room. 

MARY YATES. 

Subscribed and sworn to, this 2Sih day of September, 1849, before me, 

ISAAC V. FOWLER, Referee. 

Dennis Cochran, a witness, being sworn, deposed as follows : — I am one of the 
3oliceraen attached to the Fifth ward, or Fifth district patrol or police district of 
he city of New York ; I have been a policeman upwards of a year : 1 know Ed- 
ward Z. C. Judson, editor, of " i\'ed Buiiiline's Oini ;" 1 have known him by sight 
wo years, and to speak to him about three months; in the month ot May or June 
ast, I saw him come out of 50 Leonard street, a house ot prostitution kept by Kate 
Hastings, in company with others, between 11 and 1 o'clock at night; it is next 
loor to our station house; 1 know the house 33 Mercer street, kept by Fanny 
^Vhite, who was examined here to-day ; it is notoriously a house of ill-fame, and 
•he has been generally known through the community as having kept a house of 
U-fame in Greene street, for a number of years previous to her present cstablish- 
nent. DENNIS COCHRAN. 

Subscribed and sworn to, ibis 28th day of September, 1849, before me, 

• ISAAC V. FOWLER, Referee. 

The referee having reported that the plaintiff's case was luUy proved, a decree 
or an absolute divorce was gr.tnted. Herald. 

Ned is once more a Bachelor, and once more in the market of Matrimony, 
ind other monies. 



60 
THE RIOTER. 

Sentence of the Astor Place Rioters.. — Yesterday, Judge Daly, in the Court 
of Sessions, pronounced the several sentences of the law on Judson and his asso- 
' ciates, for ihe offences of which they had been found guilty the day before, namely, 
for the riot which took place on the 10th of May last, in front of the Astor Plaoe 
Theatre. Judson received the full exient of the law, which is cnnjbicmcn/ in the 
penitenliary for one year, and a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars. His asso- 
ciates were more leniently dealt with, being variously punished, only to the extent 
of a fesy'nionihs at the most, the particulars of which will be found in our report 
of the Court of Sessions, elsewhere in our columns. Judson, when he was called 
upon to say why sentence should not be passed upon him, exhibited the usual com- 
bination of ignorance, impudence, and folly, which has characterised the brutal 
history of this offender for years past. Judaje Daly cut his impertinence short, 
and regretled that the laws of the State had placed it beyond his power to inflict 
a greater punishment than what he pronounced — a punishment which was barely 
sufficient for the enormity of his guilt. 

It is a singular coincidence, or, perhaps, a salutary crisis, in this enormous ras- 
(jal's life, that, on the same day on which the Court of Sessions was meting out to 
him punishment for a public oflence, the Court of Common Pleas was engaged in 
a similar duty, on account of his shocking guilt and abominable practices, for the 
last few months, in private life. We allude to the suit for divorce which has 
been pending for some time past, and which was instituted by his unfortunate 
wife, the daughter of a quiet, retiring, and respectable family up town, all of 
whom, it appears, have been grossly maltreated by this Judson and his brutal as- 
sociates for the last few months, and, in fact, ever since the unhappy marriage of 
their daughter with him last winter. The evidence in this case is of such a char- 
acter, and exhibits tiie attrocity and the wickedness of Judson to such an extent, 
as to make it utterly unfit for the columns of a newspaper, or any other publication 
whatever. IheyxWainy oi \\\a\. attroeious seomidrel in frh^ate life, as exhibited 
in the evidence in this particular case, overleaps, to a most wonderful extent, any- 
thing that we have ever heard of his raseahty in his public offences, committed 
during his whole career, up to the riot in Astor Place. The Court, after it heard 
this evidence, granted, at once, an absolute divorce, and a separation of the par- 
ties forever, giving, also, his child to the entire custody of the mother. 

We have received an autobiographical sketch of the life of Judson, in certain 
pans of the United States, including his residence in this city, with the particulars 
and names of some of his associates and caterers in his career of infamy. We 
think it a duty we owe to society, to public justice, and to public feeling, to give 
the leading points of this shocking villain's career to the public, in order to warn 
them of those associates and abettors who are yet remaining at large. Whether 
his ob.scene and shocking sheet " Ned Buntline's Own," is to be continued or not, 
we do not know : but it is full time such a sheet xvere abated. 

The thanks of the public are due again and again to the firmness of the Court, 
to the Jury, to Mr. McKeon, the Public Prosecutor, and Mr. Whiting, his learned 
associate, for the course which they have severally pursued on this trial. There 
are, however, one or two more batches of cases connected willi the Astor Place 
business, which are yet to come off; but the most important, we believe, are dis- 
posed of in Judson and his associates. — [N. Y. Herald. 

" Ned Bunti.ine" and the PrisoN Authorities. — It had been slated thai Jos. Keen, 
the keepur of the Penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, remarked that Judson should have 
ro chance to abuse hi.n as he did JMr. Acker, for dereliction of his duty — but it seems 
that prison ofliceis are not .so particular. Dr. Covel, the resident city prison physician, 
we understand, sent a letter to Dr. Kelly the Penitentiary " Medico," recommending this 
villainous hypocrite to his "kindly attention^," with tne intent to provide him an easy 
and comfortable situation in the Penitenliaiy Hospital, under pretence of sickness, instead 
of earning his living by hard work in the stone quary as he should do. Fortunatefy, 
however, "the letter was discovered, and the affair will probably he investigated. Mr. 
" Ned" has refused to take any sustenance since he was committed, probably to give 
color to his " sick" story. He wanted time to edit his " Own," but this was refu.sed as 
against the rules, and he was ordered to array his comely person in prison clothes, submit 



lo Hifcipline, and.go to work in ihe qiiary like an honest convict. Al first he refused, 
com[)l;llne^l of bcins indispopdl (very hkcly) &c , but after a wliile he concludid it would 
be bet er to obey orders, and ilid as he was commanded. Ihis is a good beginning, and 
we oaly hope Mr. Keen will keep this rascal so hard at vvoik breaking stones while in 
the island, that he won't be disiiosed to throw any more when he comes off. The other 
rioters, Oieen and Adriance, have gone ijuittly to work, ami bihave themselves decently. 
— [Evening E.\press. 

Mori; Opinions! ! ! — The tone of the report of one day's proceedings, oji tlie alleged 
libel against Air. Buntline, is entirely too lenient to hit our taste. We despise all libellers 
alike, cspccialiy those who libel deienceless women, and those who write against intem- 
perance with a reeling head, and against gam'bling with a practical knowledge of its 
wickedness. The preacher himself should be pure, else he can hardly hope that liis 
hearers will pay much attention to him. Whether all the honorable things said of Mr. 
Buntline, by his former associate, Mr. Patcrson, lie of be not true, we neither know nor 
care, we jud^e him out of his own mouth, by hi.s own (inper, and we have .seen er.ougli in 
that to fully excuse the detestation in which we hold him and it. We want it to 
be distinctly understood that we have no sympathy for him whatever — our sym- 
pathy is with those he has slandered and ill-used — and we hope that the prosecu- 
tions that are going on against him, will cud in for ever slopping the issuing of 
such remorselessly slanderous, dastardly HLl^ous, abominable and trashy sheets 
as his " Own." — [Sunday Mercury. 

More Sympathy. — A publisher by the name of Paterson has got out a book 
purporting to be the private life of the illustrious JNed Buntline, The latter has 
sued his biographer for libel, and the publisher has been put under bail according- 
ly. It will doubtless be a rich trial, as Buntline, is one of the great reformers of 
tliis city. — [Uncle Sam. 

" TitE Sentinel's F.kiend, E. Z. C. Judson, alias Ned Buntline, is now on his trial 
for his part in the Astor House riot. In the action fur libel instituted against him 
by a sister-in-law of Bennet, Judson did not appear, and his bail was, of course, 
forfeited. The 'Sentinel' seems to have quite deserted its old friend; thus it i.s 
that friends abound in our hours of prosperity, but fall off wlien wc most need 
them. When Ned kept a yatch, and sported in the bay, sometimes, indeed, ' half 
seas over,' then the 'Sentinel' was loud in its praises of the 'perfect gentleman,' 
and 'accomplished navigator;' but now, alas! its lips are sealed. O, go to him, 
Mr. ' Seniinel,' and soothe the hours of a dreary cell w ith the sunshine of your pre- 
sence - read him choice extracts from the Daily — tell him about the markets, and 
about the price of peanuts. ' Teach his gigantic imagination, by the sweat of his 
brov/, 10 revel in the gardens of science, and even to grasp futurity itself.' 

O, fly to him — desert him not iu the hour of trouble." — [Jersey Telegraph. 

An Attempt by a Public Officer to SitocuKE Favors for Judson, alias " Net>. 
BtJ?<TLiNK." — The discovery of a letter, written by Dr. Covel, the Resident Physi- 
cian of the City Prison, to Dr. Kelly, the Physician of the Penitentiary, Blackwell's 
Island, in reference to " Ned Buntline," alias Judson, has caused no little talk 
about town. It seems that a plan was con-cocted to defeat the ends of justice, and 
afford Judson an easy situation in' the Penitentiary Hospital, on his feigning sick- 
D«ss ; and Dr. Covel lent himself to this by commending Judson to the kindly at- 
tentions of Dr. Kelly. Fortunately the letier was discovered and the Governors of 
the Alms-house Department now owe it to themselves to investigate the affair. 
Judson's character or criminality has nothing to do with the case. The only ques- 
tion is, why Dr. Covel has gone out of his way to make Judson's imprisonment 
merely nominal. 

Judson has refused to eat since he was taken to the Island. He was ordered to 
dress himself in prison clothes, and to go to work with the other convicts in the 
stone quarry, yesterday morning, and after refusing and con.plaining of being un- 
well, he finally did as be was commanded. He wished to have lime granted to 
edit his paper, but this was refused, as contrary to the prison regulations. Greea 
aad Adriance have gone quietly to work. — [Globe. 



62 

I 

QUITE AN EXCITEMENT. 

1' A little over a year ago, a person known as "Ned Buntline" commenced the 
publication of a paper in this city, in which a regular crusade was commenced 
against'.drinking, gambling and gamblers, courtezans, and houses of ill fame. 
About the same time, lie was married to a Miss Bennett, of this city. Since the 
paper has been in the field, it has been the most denunciaiory of vice that could 
possibly be imagined. The paper obtained, as a matter of course, a large circu- 
lation, and in a short time the editor was involved in libel suits all round. But the 
public still patronized and sympathised with him. About a month ago, it was 
rumored that his fallier-in-law, who was his bail in a number of suits, was about 
to give him up to justice ; and shortly after the rumor, he was given so over by his 
father-in-law. The next on record is, that his v. ife appears before the Court, and 
petitions for a divorce, on the ground of infidelity, charging him with frequenting 
and patronizing houses of ill fame, and divers other serious derelictions from the 
path of duty ; this, too, when his paper was vehemently denouncing these places 
in the most unmeasured terms. These proceedings " Ned Buntline" asserts, in his J 
paper, to be the result of a conspiracy to break him down. 

While all these things are going forward, the excitement has broken out in a 
fresh place. A gentleman who has been in his employ for some time past, as one 
of the editors of his paper, and wh'o says he was forced to leave him, on account 
of the non-receipt of money due him for services, announced the publication of a 
book, which was to give tlie true and correct life of "Ned Buntline" which he 
claims to be able to write, from an actual knowledge of the man and his acts. 
Immediately after the announcement of the book, a card was published by "Ned 
Buntline," in the cily papers, forbidding printers, publishers, and booksellers, to 
have anything to do with the forthcoming work, under a threat of prosecuting 
each and every person so engaged for libel. In spite of this, however, the book) 
did appear. The following is its title : — 

THE PRIVATE LIFE, PUBLIC CAREER, AND REAL CHARACTER 



ODIOUS RASCAL NED BUNTLINE ! ! 

AS DEVELOPED BT HIS CONDUCT TO 

HISJPAST WIFE, PRESENT WIFE, aitd his vakious PARAMOURS ! 

Completely lifting vp the Veil, and Unmashng to n Horror-stricken Commuf 

nity, his Debaucheries, Seductions, Adulteries, Revelings, Cruelties, 

Threats and Murders ! ! ! 

And, truly, if the contents are true, this "Ned Buntline" must be a very bad matt 
The publisher had made ample arrangements to supply the demand fur the book 
and, in a few days, nearly every man and woman in the city had a copy, whill 
large numbers were sent to every part ol' the country by mail, where they had beet 
ordered. The cost of the book (25 cents) every man who read it says is a mere 
trifle, compared willi the contents. A few days after the appearance of the book, 
"Ned Buntline" complained at the Police Office of the author, charging him withl 
having libelled him in the aforesaid book, whereupon that gentleman promptm 
appeared before the Police Justice, and demanded a hearing, asserting that he would? 
prove every word he had written. At ^le time appointed for hearing, " Ned Bunt-i 
line'' asked that the case miglit be postponed for a few days, evidently fearinffl 
that he had caught a tartar, in arresting Palerson. In the meantime, the denranS 
for the book continued, and we should not wonder if some of our booksellers shoulJ 
realize a very considerable amount by its sale. Affidavits have also appeared! 
charging " Buntline" with seducing a young girl, and keeping her in a house of ilB 
fame, during the ^first year of his marriagec. Altogether, this is a rich case.-| 
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incipient stages, tiiat Dr. Porter's preparation has few or no eq'-'L!-; ja the rna!'^ I 
medica. Those who may be suffering from the above referred ; :■ complaints, c;... 
not be more prudent than by calling on the Doctor and procuring his invaluaMt 
remedy, accompanied with his gratuitous advice. «^ " 

W. F. J. TK F..S, ^ i 
Bbooklvn, December lOtb, 184S. 

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